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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.
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.
In this paper we present an on-going project called Web-UPSID, consist- ing of a simple but powerful, Internet-accessible interface to the data, intended to address the issues above. 1. INTRODUCTION The UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID), put together by Ian Maddieson and colleagues at UCLA, is a valu- able material for ...
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.
UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database; W. World Atlas of Language Structures This page was last edited on 9 July 2018, at 08:12 (UTC). Text is ...
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.
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 ...
