Patterns of Sounds

by Ian Maddieson and Maddieson

Book Overview

Patterns of Sounds describes the frequency and distributional patterns of the phonemic sounds in a large and representative sample of the world's languages. The results are based on UPSID (the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database), a computer file containing the phonemes of 317 languages selected on the basis of genetic diversity. The book contains nine chapters analysing the UPSID data, as well as fully labelled phoneme charts for each language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521113261
• ISBN13: 9780521113267
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"