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Note: This is NOT the UCLA Phonetics Archive, completed in Dec. 2008 with NSF funding. This page (Phonetics Lab Data) is phonetics teaching materials compiled from the lab's collection by Peter and Jenny Ladefoged (originally "Sounds of the World's Languages").

UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive

Imprint [Los Angeles, CA : Phonetics Laboratory, Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA], 1981. Available online At the library

The UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID) is a collection of phoneme inventories from 451 languages. Features such as manner, place, length, phonation type and secondary articulation are included.

WPP, No.111: Focus, prosody, and individual differences in “autistic” traits: Evidence from cross-modal semantic priming

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 UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID), which contains 451 languages’ phoneme inventories (Maddieson, 1984; Maddieson and Precoda, 1990). The third is the 200 language sample ...

in turn provided the database required to test for phonological universals. Specifically, such phonological investigations allowed Maddieson (1984, 1991) and Maddieson and Precoda (1990) to establish the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID), the most widely used database for typological and universal research in phonology.