Ian Maddieson

Ian Maddieson is a linguist at UC Berkeley, an Adjunct Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico, Vice-President of the International Phonetic Association, and Secretary of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. He wrote the books Patterns of Sounds and Sounds of the World's Languages.

Books

• Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19814-8. 
  • Based on data from about 400 languages, the book describes the known contrasting phonetic categories (ways in which the phonemic sounds of the human languages may differ)
• Ian Maddieson, Patterns of Sounds,
  • Cambridge University Press, 1984, ISBN 0-521-26536-3
  • Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 0-521-11326-1
  • The book analyzes frequencies and distributions of the phonemic sounds among languages. The results are based on UPSID (the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database).

External links

• Ian Maddieson's Homepage
• Ian Maddieson's Homepage at the University of Berkeley