The sounds of the world s languages, by peter ladefoged and ian maddieson. The phonetics archivecontains unedited audio recordings and wordlists by peter, colleagues, and many students, intended for research use. British libraiy cataloguing in publication data a cip catalogue record for this book is available from the british library library of congress cataloging in publication data ladefoged, peter. The airstream mechanism is mandatory for sound production and constitutes the first part of this process, which is called initiation. Sounds of the world s languages a longtime ambition has been to hear and describe all the distinct sounds of the world s languages, perhaps 800 consonants and 200 vowels. Describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in wellknown languages written by the late peter ladefoged, one of the world s leading phoneticians, with updates by renowned forensic linguist, sandra ferrari disner includes numerous revisions to the discussion of speech technology and. This book describes all the known ways in which the. The sounds of language available for download and read online in other formats. Describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in wellknown languages.
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