The Sounds of the World's Languages

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'It is well written, superbly researched, and it will make a real mark in the halls of linguistics publishing. It is a book a vast range of linguists, phoneticians, speech scientists, and others will need to have on their shelves.' John A. Goldsmith, University of Chicago
'It is a book that all students of phonology and phonetics will want to own.' Michael Kenstowicz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
'Drawing on their vast experience they have provided us with a fascinating insight into the rich varieties of sounds that characterize the languages of the world.' W.J. Hardcastle, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh
'It is a boon to all teachers and researchers in the field.' W. Barry, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken
This book gives a description of all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. In doing so, it provides the empirical foundations for linguistic phonetics and phonology. It will be a standard work of reference for researchers in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'It is well written, superbly researched, and it will make a real mark in the halls of linguistics publishing. It is a book a vast range of linguists, phoneticians, speech scientists, and others will need to have on their shelves.' John A. Goldsmith, University of Chicago
'It is a book that all students of phonology and phonetics will want to own.' Michael Kenstowicz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
'Drawing on their vast experience they have provided us with a fascinating insight into the rich varieties of sounds that characterize the languages of the world.' W.J. Hardcastle, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh
'It is a boon to all teachers and researchers in the field.' W. Barry, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken
This book gives a description of all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. In doing so, it provides the empirical foundations for linguistic phonetics and phonology. It will be a standard work of reference for researchers in phonetics, linguistics, and speech science for many years to come.
The scope of the book is truly global, with data drawn from nearly 400 languages, many of them investigated at first hand by the authors. A picture of the full range of possible contrasting phonetic categories is created by comparing families of similar sounds across many different languages.
Separate chapters deal with place of articulation, stops, nasals, fricatives, laterals, rhotics, clicks, vowels, and segments with multiple articulations. Each chapter is packed with illustrations documenting the articulatory and acoustic characteristics of the sounds discussed, and serving to illustrate the application of modern experimental techniques to descriptive phonetic studies.
Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson
The authors are respectively Professor of Phonetics Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Peter Ladefoged's books include Elements of Acoustic Phonetics (1962) and A Course in Phonetics (third edition 1993). Ian Maddieson is author of Patterns of Sounds (1984).
Phonological Theory
Series Advisory Editors
Michael Kenstowicz, John A. Goldsmith, G.N. Clements, Donca Steriade
Cover illustration: Henry Moore, Profile Head (HMF 81 [122]) 1981, pastel wash, ballpoint, wax crayon, gouache and charcoal, 284 x 264 mm. © The Henry Moore Foundation.
Cover design by Fielding Rowinski.
isbn g-631-1çh1s-a Vissza