عنوان

Patterns of sounds /

(Number (ISBN

9780511753459 (ebook)

Erroneous ISBN

9780521113267 (paperback)

Erroneous ISBN

9780521265362 (hardback)

Number

b502699

Title Proper

Patterns of sounds /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ian Maddieson ; with a chapter contributed by Sandra Ferrari Disner.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1984.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (ix, 422 pages) :

Other Physical Details

digital, PDF file(s)

Series Title

Cambridge studies in speech science and communication.

Text of Note

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

Text of Note

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 and a comprehensive segment index. Questions of the frequency and co-occurrence of the particular segment types are discussed in detail and possible explanations for the patterns observed are evaluated. The book is thus both a report on the research into phoneme inventory structure that has been done using UPSID and a resource that provides the reader with the tools to extend that research.

Grammar, Comparative and general-- Phonology.

Phonetics.

Class number

Book number

Maddieson, Ian

Disner, Sandra Ferrari

Date of Transaction

20160428103338.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

Y