> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Alex Fink <000024@...> wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 17:46:14 -0400, Logan Kearsley <
> chronosurfer@GMAIL.COM>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>I used to have an IPA table that included the frequency of each phone
> >>among world languages- which phones occur in 90% of all languages,
> >>which phones occur in 80% of languages, which phones occur in only 5%
> >>of languages, etc. But I seem to have lost it, and I can't find
> >>anything like that on line. Anybody know where I could get a table or
> >>a list with frequencies for different phones among world languages?
> >
> > Wouldn't you know it, I was _just_ looking for the very same thing.
> UPSID
> > (the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database) does nearly exactly
> this,
> > and there's an interface to it at
> >
http://web.phonetik.uni-frankfurt.de/upsid.html .
> > Use "find certain sounds and languages that have them", option #5; it
> gives
> > you a table with frequencies of each phone in the phonologies in its
> > database below the output. Not sorted, but you can do that.
>
> Y'know, that would be pretty darn useful.
> Unfortunately, my attempts to access the website have so far
> invariably been met with network timeout errors.
> I don't suppose the database is available in a convenient downloadable
> format, like tab-delimited text file or something...?
> I did manage to find a DOS program. Maybe I can get some use out of that.
>
> -l.
>