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Welcome to PHOIBLE. PHOIBLE is a repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory data, which have been extracted from source documents and tertiary databases and compiled into a single searchable convenience sample. Release 2.0 from 2019 includes 3020 inventories that contain 3183 segment types found in 2186 distinct languages.
Nov 20, 2022 · Language links are at the top of the page across from the title.
Aug 13, 2005 · Updating UPSID. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 86, S19 (1989) UPSID—the UCLA phonological segment inventory database—is a database containing the phoneme inventories of a large genetically based sample of languages [I. Maddieson, Patterns of Sounds (1984)]. Each phoneme is specified in terms of a comprehensive set of phonetic features.
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.
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 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 ...
The UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID), put together by Ian Maddieson and colleagues at UCLA, is a valu- able material for Phonetics research and teaching. In its second version, USPID contains information for 45 1 languages, carefully sampled from the world’ s languages [2, 4-j.
