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Mar 17, 2009 · Abstract. The nature of speech sound inventories has been a focus of study by phonologists and phoneticians, facilitated in 1984 with the publication by Ian Maddieson of the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database. This article gives an overview of the study of inventories and summarizes some of the major findings.
Aug 4, 2010 · 1 The size and structure of phonological inventories; 2 Stops and affricates; 3 Fricatives; 4 Nasals; 5 Liquids; 6 Vocoid approximants; 7 Glottalic and laryngealized consonants; 8 Vowels; 9 Insights on vowel spacing; 10 The design of the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID) Appendix A Language lists and bibliography of data sources
Welcome to PHOIBLE. PHOIBLE is a repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory data, which have been extracted from source documents and tertiary databases and compiled into a single searchable convenience sample. Release 2.0 from 2019 includes 3020 inventories that contain 3183 segment types found in 2186 distinct languages.
Oct 21, 2020 · Table of Contents. UPSID, the UCLA phonological segment inventory database / Ian Maddieson. Phonological generalizations from the UCLA phonological segment inventory database / Ian Maddieson. Abstract of A study in phonemic universals, especially concerning fricatives and stops / Jonas N.A. Nartey. Insights on vowel spacing / Sandra F. Disner.
Aug 13, 2005 · Updating UPSID. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 86, S19 (1989) 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.
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. If possible also include the URL for the inventory being referenced. For example: UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database. 2014.
