Patterns of Sounds describes the frequency and distributional patterns of the phonemic sounds in a large and representative sample of the world's languages. The

Based on research on the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database.

Since this classic work in phonology was published in 1968, there has been no other book that gives as broad a view of the subject, combining generally applicab

Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Julie

Poets, academics, and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sound