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Estimates of phoneme-inventory size can differ radically between sources, occasionally by a factor of several hundred percent. For instance, Received Pronunciation of English has been claimed to have anywhere between 11 and 27 vowels, whereas West ǃXoon has been analyzed as having anywhere from 87 to 164 consonants.
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The results are based on UPSID (the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database), a computer file containing the phonemes of 317 languages selected on the basis of genetic diversity. The book contains nine chapters analysing the UPSID data, as well as fully labelled phoneme charts for each language and a comprehensive segment index.
1 The size and structure of phonological inventories. 1.1 Introduction. The database is known formally as the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database, and its acronym is UPSID. 1.2 Design of the database. A. The database includes the inventories of 317 languages.
The phonological typology of the Great Andamanese languages includes a number of features of areal interest, including retroflex consonants (characteristic of South Asia) and lack of phonemic fricatives (reconstructed for Proto-Dravidian). Its morphosyntactic typology has some unremarkable features from a global typological perspective, such as ...
The UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (or UPSID) is a statistical survey of the phoneme inventories in 451 of the world's languages. [1] 5 relations: Ian Maddieson , Language , Phoneme , Phonetics , University of California, Los Angeles .
If you are citing phoneme inventory data for a particular language or languages, please use the name of the language as the title, and include the original data source as an element within PHOIBLE. For example: UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database. 2019. Lelemi sound inventory (UPSID). In: Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel (eds.) PHOIBLE 2.0.
