Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The size and structure of phonological inventories; 2. Stops and affricates; 3. Fricatives; 4. Nasals; 5. Liquids; 6. Vocoid approximants; 7. Glottalic and laryngealized consonants; 8. Vowels; 9. Insights on vowel spacing; 10. The design of the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database' Indices.

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Describes the frequency and distributional patterns of the phonemic sounds in a large and representative sample of the world's languages.