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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.
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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 ...
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.
Jul 1, 1997 · The UPSID (UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database,Maddieson, 1984) inventory is analyzed using an original methodology, with the following main results. 1. Vowel systems first exploit a “primary” system of sounds; with more than 9 vowels, there is a clear trend for exploiting at least one new dimension (“secondary ” systems).2.
PHOIBLE (short for "Phonetics Information Base and Lexicon") [1] is a linguistic database accessible through its website and compiling phonological inventories from primary documents and tertiary databases into a single, easily searchable sample. The 2019 version 2.0 includes 3,020 inventories containing 3,183 segment types found in 2,186 ...
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.
