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The UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (or UPSID) is a statistical survey of the phoneme inventories in 451 of the world's languages. The database was created by American phonetician Ian Maddieson for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1984 and has been updated several times.
The UPSID folder contains data from the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database: Maddieson, I., & Precoda, K. (1990). Updating UPSID. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 74, 104–111. The contents and extraction pipeline for these data are described in (chapter 4): Moran, Steven. (2012). Phonetics Information Base and Lexicon.
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The UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database. Data on the phonological systems of 451 languages, with programs to access it, by Ian Maddieson and Kristin Precoda. This is an elderly DOS program (and thus Windows only), neither of whose developers are still at UCLA, and no support is offered.
A subset of 451 languages in PHOIBLE comes from the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database, whose author, Ian Maddieson, is a contributor to the chapter on phonology in WALS. References
The most frequent segment in UPSID is the bilabial nasal /m/, which occurs in 425 languages and hence its segment frequency is 94.2%. There are 919 different segments in the database and the of all frequencies is rather long. The 20 most frequent consonants and the 10 most frequent vowels are: That is, the group of sounds that appear in 10 or ...
Aug 13, 2005 · PDF. Share. Tools. UPSID—the UCLA phonological segment inventory database—is a database containing the phoneme inventories of a large genetically based sample of languages [I. Maddieson, Patterns of Sounds (1984)]. Each phoneme is specified in terms of a comprehensive set of phonetic features.
