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100 1 _aLaver, John.
245 1 0 _aPrinciples of phonetics /
260 _aCambridge ;
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2000.
300 _axxviii, 707 p. :
_bill. ;
490 _aCambridge textbooks in linguistics.
500 _aUnderlying the apparent diversity shown by the thousands of mutually incomprehensible languages of the world, there is a remarkable, elegant and principled unity in the way that these languages exploit the phonetic resources of speech. It is these principles that Professor Laver sets out to describe in this major new textbook
505 _apt. VIII. Conclusion. 19. Evaluating general phonetic theory -- Appendix I: The phonetic alphabet of the International Phonetic Association -- Appendix II: Index of languages.
650 0 _aPhonetics.
856 4 1 _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam023/93018183.html
856 4 2 _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam025/93018183.html
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