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The Design of the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID) 10.1 Introduction. The discovery of generalizations concerning the content and structure of phonological inventories has been a significant objective of recent work in linguistics. A. Stanford Phonological Archive (SPA) 1.
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.
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 language s. 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.
May 7, 2018 · For instance, the current study proposes a set of 19 phonological features in total. (2) A unified feature set for multiple languages means being able to pool data from different languages ...
Jan 18, 2022 · Join for free. Public Full-text 1. ... the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID; Maddieson 1984; Maddieson & Precoda 1990). ... input sources come with different types of annotation ...
The reanalysis presented here is suggestive rather than exhaustive, and aims to illustrate the enormous research potential of the UPSID database by reanalyzing a specific section of this relatively untapped source of phonological information.
