Ian Maddieson
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Ian Maddieson is a linguist at UC Berkeley, an Adjunct Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico, Vice-President of the International Phonetic Association, and Secretary of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. He wrote the books Patterns of Sounds and Sounds of the World's Languages.
Books
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- Based on data from about 400 languages, the book describes the known contrasting phonetic categories (ways in which the phonemic sounds of the human languages may differ)
- Ian Maddieson, Patterns of Sounds,
- Cambridge University Press, 1984, ISBN 0-521-26536-3
- Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 0-521-11326-1
- The book analyzes frequencies and distributions of the phonemic sounds among languages. The results are based on UPSID (the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database).
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