phonology

This paper presents a modular framework for generating artificial lexicons that are pronounceable, typologically plausible, and semantically structured, using phoneme inventories from PHOIBLE and probabilistic grammars, outperforming deterministic baselines.

This paper analyzes the Huitongguanxi Huayiyiyu, a series of multilingual glossaries from the Ming dynasty, as a structured cross-linguistic transcription system that used Chinese characters to represent non-Chinese languages, revealing how Chinese phonological categories were flexibly extended for phonetic approximation.