Phonetic Study of West African Languages

by P. Ladefoged

When it was first published in 1968, this monograph was among the most important contributions to the area of phonetic research in Africa since the publication of Westermann and Ward's Practical Phonetics for Students of African Languages in 1933. Drawing from a sample of sixty-one West African languages, Dr Ladefoged offers a description of the phonetic elements that cause differences in lexical and grammatical meaning. In particular, he focuses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521116236
• ISBN13: 9780521116237
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"