The Sounds of the World's Languages
This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, 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.
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The Sounds of the World's Languages
This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, 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.
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The Sounds of the World's Languages

The Sounds of the World's Languages

The Sounds of the World's Languages

The Sounds of the World's Languages

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This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780631198154
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 02/05/1996
Series: Phonological Theory
Pages: 448
Product dimensions: 6.78(w) x 9.72(h) x 1.05(d)

About the Author

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 the standard introductory phonetics textbook A Course in Phonetics 3e (Harcourt Brace, 1993)

Table of Contents

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Acknowledgments.

1. The Sounds of the World's Languages.

2. Places of Articulation.

3. Stops.

4. Nasals and Nasalized Consonants.

5. Fricatives.

6. Laterals.

7. Rhotics.

8. Clicks.

9. Vowels.

10. Multiple Articulatory Gestures.

References.

Index.

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