The sounds of the world's languages

Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson
Blackwell Publishers
 9780631198154
0-631-19815-6

This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, it will be a standard work of reference for researchers.

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in phonetics, linguistics and speech science for many years to come. The scope of the book is truly global, with data drawn from nearly 400 languages, many of them investigated at first hand by the authors.