Ian Maddieson
American linguist
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| Intro | American linguist | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| is | Linguist | |
| Work field | Literature Social science | |
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| Birth | 1942, Watford, United Kingdom | |
| Age | 83 years |
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Biography
Ian Maddieson is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of New Mexico and who was previously at the University of California, Berkeley.
He was Vice-President of the International Phonetic Association and Secretary of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.
Books
- Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-19815-4.
- Based on data from about 400 languages, the book describes the known contrasting phonetic categories, the ways in which the phonemic sounds may differ in human languages.
- Maddieson, Ian, Patterns of Sounds,
- Cambridge University Press, 1984, ISBN 0-521-26536-3
- Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 0-521-11326-1
- The book analyzes the frequencies and distributions of the phonemic sounds among languages. The results are based on UPSID (the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database).