Re: Books
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 31, 2003, 1:53 |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:48:20 EDT, Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@...> wrote:
>In a message dated 7/24/2003 7:33:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>ianspackman@BTINTERNET.COM writes:
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>>And while I'm at it, are there any other books essential to the conlanger's
>>bookshelf? (Not that I can afford many, but I can probably stretch to
>>another one if sufficiently recommeded!
>Also it would be good to have a book with short descriptions of natlangs for
>inspiration. Say, _The World's Major Languages_ by Bernard Comrie or
>something similar.
Another type of book that's very useful to have is a book on phonetics.
There are a number of ones that come to mind, but it seems the one I refer
to most is _The Sounds of the World's Languages_ by Peter Ladefoged and Ian
Maddieson.