Peter Ladefoged and Phonetics in the Field - UCLA Department of ...
Peter Ladefoged and Phonetics in the Field - UCLA Department of ...
Peter Ladefoged and Phonetics in the Field - UCLA Department of ...
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Follow<strong>in</strong>g his West African work, <strong>Peter</strong> soon<br />
started to visit o<strong>the</strong>r parts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world — Mexico <strong>in</strong><br />
1963, India <strong>in</strong> 1965, Ug<strong>and</strong>a <strong>in</strong> 1966/7<br />
This led to <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>cisive survey <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>formation on<br />
<strong>the</strong> “contrasts observable at <strong>the</strong> systematic phonetic<br />
level <strong>in</strong> a wide variety <strong>of</strong> languages” —<br />
Prelim<strong>in</strong>aries to L<strong>in</strong>guistic <strong>Phonetics</strong> (1971) —<br />
propos<strong>in</strong>g a universal set <strong>of</strong> articulatory <strong>and</strong> auditory<br />
features