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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ian Maddieson is British-American linguist and professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, in the United States. He has served as Vice-President of the International Phonetic Association, and Secretary of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. Maddieson is best known for his work in phonetics, and phonological typology. He spent most of his academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, where he often collaborated with Peter Ladefoged in describing the patterns of speech sounds in the world's spoken languages.
Ian Maddieson's Published Works
Published Works
- The sounds of the world's languages (1996) (2536)
- Patterns of sounds (1986) (1537)
- On the universal structure of human lexical semantics (2015) (102)
- “Tense” and “lax” in four minority languages of China (1985) (83)
- Stops in the World’s Languages (1992) (82)
- PHONETICS OF PARTIALLY NASAL CONSONANTS (1993) (77)
- An exploration of phonation types in Wu dialects of Chinese (1992) (74)
- Primate feedstock for the evolution of consonants (2014) (66)
- Vowels of the world''''s languages (1990) (64)
- The effects on F0 of a voicing distinction in sonorants and their implications for a theory of tonogenesis (1984) (53)
- EXPLAINING FINAL OBSTRUENT VOICING IN LEZGIAN : PHONETICS AND HISTORY (2004) (45)
- Relationship between Semivowels and Vowels: Cross-Linguistic Investigations of Acoustic Difference and Coarticulation (1985) (44)
- Aspects of the phonetics of Tlingit (2001) (43)
- Syllable structure and phonetic models (1992) (42)
- Digital inverse filtering for linguistic research. (1987) (41)
- LAPSyd: lyon-albuquerque phonological systems database (2013) (40)
- Geographical distribution of phonological complexity (2011) (37)
- Vowel differences between Chicano and General Californian English? (1985) (37)
- Language history and linguistic description in Africa (1998) (34)
- Correlating phonological complexity: data and validation (2005) (34)
- The phonetic structures of Hadza (2010) (34)
- Human spoken language diversity and the acoustic adaptation hypothesis (2015) (33)
- 5. Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems (2005) (32)
- Testing the Universality of Phonological Generalizations with a Phonetically Specified Segment Database: Results and Limitations (1991) (32)
- Prenasalized stops and speech timing. (1988) (31)
- Linguistic Universals: In search of universals (2006) (28)
- Measuring Larynx Movement in Standard Thai Using the Cricothyrometer (1976) (26)
- Glides and gemination (2008) (26)
- WPP, No. 64: Some of the Sounds of the World's Languages (1986) (25)
- Tone System Typology and Distinctive Features (1972) (24)
- The sounds of the Bantu languages (2019) (24)
- Issues of Phonological Complexity: Statistical Analysis of the Relationship Between Syllable Structures, Segment Inventories and Tone Contrasts (2005) (23)
- Why Make Life Hard? Resolutions to Problems of Rare and Difficult Sound Types (1998) (22)
- The analysis of complex phonetic elements in Bura and the syllable (2010) (19)
- Calculating phonological complexity (2009) (19)
- Is There a Valid Distinction between Voiceless Lateral Approximants and Fricatives? (1984) (18)
- THE PHONETICS OF NDUMBEA (1999) (18)
- The phonetic structures of Dahalo (1993) (16)
- Tone effects on consonants (1978) (15)
- Vowel spacing in four‐vowel systems (2003) (14)
- Investigating the "Hidden" Structure of Phonological Systems * (2004) (13)
- The Phonetics Of Paici Vowels (2004) (13)
- Studying language evolution in the age of big data (2018) (13)
- Investigating Ewe articulations with electromagnetic articulography (1993) (13)
- The Effects of Phonological Structure on the Acoustic Correlates of Rhythm (2011) (13)
- The Frequency of Tones (1978) (12)
- Articulatory Phonology and Sukuma “Aspirated Nasals” (1991) (12)
- An inverse filtering study of Burmese creaky voice (1982) (11)
- The use of 'rare' segments for language identification (1999) (10)
- Language Adapts to Environment: Sonority and Temperature (2018) (10)
- Phonological Complexity in Linguistic Patterning (2011) (10)
- PHONOLOGICAL CONTRAST AND PHONETIC REALIZATION : THE CASE OF BERBER STOPS (1999) (9)
- Typology of Phonological Systems (2010) (9)
- The Phonetic Structures of Oaxaca Chontal1 (2009) (8)
- Vowel length before stops of contrasting series (1975) (7)
- Timing and Alignment: A Case Study of Lai (2004) (7)
- Universals of tone : six studies (1977) (7)
- Revision of the IPA: linguo-labials as a test case (1987) (7)
- Demonstration of LAPSyd: lyon-albuquerque phonological systems database (2013) (7)
- The transcription of tone in the IPA (1990) (7)
- Bilabial and labio-dental fricatives in Ewe (2006) (6)
- Good timing: place-dependent voice onset time in ejective stops (2001) (6)
- Palato‐alveolar affricates in several languages (1979) (6)
- Variability in the production of glottalized sonorants: data from yapese (2002) (5)
- AREAL DISTRIBUTION OF NASALIZED VOWELS (2007) (5)
- Factors in human language identification (2002) (5)
- Tone spacing: evidence from bilingual speakers (1978) (5)
- A Possible New Cause of Tone-Splitting--Evidence from Cama, Yoruba, and Other Languages. (1974) (5)
- Phonology, Naturalness and Universals (2009) (4)
- Is phonological typology possible without (universal) categories (2018) (4)
- Shipibo (2001) (4)
- Current Issues in the Phonetic Sciences: Proceedings of the IPS-77 (1981) (4)
- Correlating syllable complexity with other measures of phonological complexity (International Phonetics and Phonology Forum) (2010) (4)
- Linguistic Fieldwork: Phonetic fieldwork (2001) (3)
- Combining frication and glottal constriction: Two solutions to a dilemma (1997) (3)
- Patterns of Sounds by Ian Maddieson (1987) (3)
- Distinguishing between tense and lax phonation in four minority languages of China (1985) (3)
- Characteristics of the voice source (1987) (3)
- Illustrations of the IPA: Shipibo (2001) (3)
- The Phonetic Structures of Oaxaca Chontal (2005) (3)
- Gikuyu NP Morpho-Syntax (1999) (2)
- Dimensions of tone systems (1979) (2)
- Cross‐linguistic issues in the relationship between semivowels and vowels (1985) (2)
- Tone spreading and perception (1976) (2)
- Word length is (in part) predicted by phoneme inventory size and syllable structure (2016) (2)
- Apical and Laminal Articulations in Hakha Lai (2004) (2)
- Segmentation, not just similarity: alliteration as a natural experiment (2008) (2)
- Phonetics in the Field (2002) (2)
- Diversity of vowel systems (2005) (1)
- Phonetic and phonological stages in stops (1990) (1)
- Acoustical Society of America Silver Medal in Speech Communication: John J. Ohala (2015) (1)
- Glottalized consonants in Oaxaca Chontal (2005) (1)
- Is consonant harmony assimilatory (2013) (1)
- Intrinsic vowel F0 and speech rate (2006) (1)
- Further studies on vowel length before aspirated stops (1976) (1)
- 4. Phonetics and African languages (2018) (1)
- Effect on F0 of the linguistic use of tense and lax phonation (1986) (0)
- Investigating the voice quality dimension in Western Nilotic vowel harmony (1984) (0)
- Peter Ladefoged and phonetics in the field (2005) (0)
- Commentary on ‘Reading waveforms’ (1991) (0)
- Under-documented languages expand phonetic typology (2016) (0)
- Phonetic structures of endangered languages: Investigative techniques (1994) (0)
- Uniformity, Solidarity, Frequency (2019) (0)
- Constructing a global cross-linguistic database of basic phonological properties: Principles and challenges (2015) (0)
- ENCOMIUM FOR JOHN J. OHALA (2015) (0)
- Peter Ladefoged (2007) (0)
- Phonological typology in geog (2003) (0)
- Number 2 , Fall 1996 THE PHONETIC STRUCTURES OF HADZA * (2010) (0)
- Investigating the ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘why’ of global phonological typology (2023) (0)
- Airflow and duration patterns in Tunisian Arabic fricatives. (2011) (0)
- Phonetic study of North American languages history and results (2005) (0)
- The phonetic structures of Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca (2009) (0)
- SOME PHONETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF IAAI (2019) (0)
- Aerodynamic constraints on language history: The ease of bilabial trills (1988) (0)
- Kingston John & Mary E. Beckman (eds.) (1990). Papers in laboratory phonology I: between the grammar and physics of speech . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. x + 506. (1994) (0)
- THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD IN PHONOLOGY (2012) (0)
- Cross‐linguistic preferences in onset‐nucleus sequences (1992) (0)
- IN SEARCH OF UNIVERSALS (1999) (0)
- The Origin and Distribution of Complexity of Phonological Structure (2012) (0)
- Phonetic structures of endangered languages: Observations and findings (1994) (0)
- Martin Heepe (editor), Lautzeichen und ihre Anwendungen in verscheidenen Sprachgebieten . (Pp. xxvii + 116, reprint of 1928 edititon (Reichdruckerei, Berlin), with an introduction by Elmar Ternes, Helmut Buske Verlag, Hamburg, 1983. DM 38.00.) (1988) (0)
- Spectral characteristics of palato‐alveolar affricates in three languages (1981) (0)
- VOT in cross language and comparative phonetics (2004) (0)
- The Stops of Tlingit (2013) (0)
- Postscript: The Kiel Congress of the International Phonetic Association (1998) (0)
- Contents, Vol. 42, 1985 (1985) (0)
- Burmese and the effect of consonant voicing on F0 (1983) (0)
- CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VOICE SOUR CE (2006) (0)
- American English and the International Phonetic Alphabet: The International Phonetic Association Reacts (1998) (0)
- David Crystal. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 489 Hb. US$49.95. ISBN 0-521-40179-8. (1994) (0)
- Contents, Vol. 41, 1984 (1984) (0)
- Segment and syllable frequency. (1992) (0)
- FACTORS IN HUMAN LANGUA (2002) (0)
- Tone spreading, perception and linguistic background (1977) (0)
- Interpreting complex articulations: The backward tongue movement in Ewe doubly articulated stops (1993) (0)
- Techniques for the analysis of phonation types in natural languages (1983) (0)
- Preface: The Relation between Phonetics and Phonology (1991) (0)
- INVESTIGATING LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS (2019) (0)
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