The Sounds of the World's Languages, sometimes abbreviatedSOWL,[1] is a 1996 book byPeter Ladefoged andIan Maddieson which documents a global survey of the sound patterns of natural languages.[2][3][4] Drawing from the authors' own fieldwork and experiments as well as existing literature, it provides anarticulatory andacoustic description ofvowels andconsonants from more than 300 languages.[5] It is a prominent reference work in the field ofphonetics.[6][7][8]
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