Ian Maddieson
Born	( 1942-09-01 ) September 1, 1942 (age 81) Watford, UK
Nationality	British
Education	Oxford University (BA), University of London (MA) University of California, Los Angeles (PhD)
Known for	Phonetics , Phonological Typology
Scientific career
Fields	Phonetics , Phonology , Linguistic typology
Institutions	University of California at Berkeley , University of New Mexico , Santa Fe Institute
Website	Official website

Ian Maddieson (born September 1, 1942 in Watford , United Kingdom ^[1] ) 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.

Books [ edit ]

• Ladefoged, Peter ; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages . Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN   0-631-19815-6 .
  • 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   978-0-521-11326-7
  • 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).

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Ian Maddieson's Homepage at the University of Berkeley

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