Vowels and consonants : an introduction to the sounds of languages

By P. Ladefoged. 2001

230 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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Citations in the corpus

• Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition (2010, background): “The world’s languages contain approximately 600 consonants and 200 vowels (Ladefoged, 2001).”
• Is speech learning 'gated' by the social brain? (2007, background): “The world's languages contain approximately 600 consonants and 200 vowels (Ladefoged, 2001).”
• Seven Dimensions of Portability for Language Documentation and Description (2002, methodology): “When you open the SUMERIAN.DOC file, ensure that at File, Templates, or at Tools, Templates and Add-Ins, there is a valid path to the enclosed SUMERIAN.”
• Category Preservation and Proximity versus Phonetic Approximation in Loanword Adaptation (2005, background): “16 It is well established that listeners rely primarily on F1 and F2 to distinguish one vowel from another (e.g., MacKay 1987:265, Kent 1997:334, Ball and Rahilly 1999:166, 199, Ladefoged 2001:39).”