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UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID) Description: A collection of web pages for each of the UPSID languages listing the phonological inventories of each language, showing the phonological segments by feature and referencing the other languages that have each feature.
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.
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Each segment that is judged to deserve inclusion in the inventory is represented by a phonetic specification. D. The variable set is designed so that there is a minimum of appeal to redundancy to interpret their meaning, also to accommodate some of the major indeterminacies found in the phonological sources. 10.4 Indices and Variables
Within this subset there is a core of widely recurring sounds. The structure and frequency of these speech sounds is extensively described in UPSID – the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (Maddieson 1984), a landmark publication in comparative phonology and point of departure for PRUPSID , a Phonetic Reanalysis of UPSID data.
UPSID: The UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (Maddieson, 1984; Maddieson & Precoda, 1990) AA : Alphabets of Africa (Chanard, 2006; Hartell, 1993) PH : Data drawn from journal articles, theses, and published grammars, added by members of the Linguistic Phonetics Laboratory at the University of Washington (Moran, 2012)
The voiced palatal fricative is a very rare sound, occurring in only 7 of the 317 languages surveyed by the original UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database. In Dutch , Kabyle , Margi , Modern Greek , and Scottish Gaelic , the sound occurs phonemically, along with its voiceless counterpart , and in several more, the sound occurs as a ...
