The Sounds of the World's Languages (Phonological Theory) (1996)

by Peter Ladefoged, Ian Maddieson

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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.… (more)

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I had somehow expected this to be a more forbiddingly academic and encyclopaedic work than what it turned out to be. It's actually quite readable, and while the authors exemplify various unusual distinctions with data from many languages, they don't waste time on the obvious. Any reader of a book like this, after all, is certain to know of a language distinguishing /t/ and /k/, say.

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Aghul language

Ayin

Doubly articulated consonant

Glottalic theory

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Romanization of Chinese

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Subapical consonant

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Voiceless bilabial nasal

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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.

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