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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.
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Aug 4, 2010 · A database designed to give more reliable and more readily available answers to questions concerning the distribution of phonological segments in the world's languages has been created as part of the research program of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory. The database is known formally as the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database, and for ...
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.
The most frequent segment in UPSID is the bilabial nasal /m/, which occurs in 425 languages and hence its segment frequency is 94.2%. There are 919 different segments in the database and the of all frequencies is rather long. The 20 most frequent consonants and the 10 most frequent vowels are: That is, the group of sounds that appear in 10 or ...
