Is anyone familiar enough with the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory
Database (UPSID) to know whether that helps with this question?

See UPSID-PC and links at
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/sales/software.htm (I haven't
tried to download and install but pass this on for the info of anyone
interested).

Don

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Nicholas Bodley" <nbodley@...> wrote:
>
> Ahh, nothing like a professional to enlighten a dilettante! Thank you,
> Peter.
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_phonetics> looks like a worthy
> article; it has a number of references, although not Roederer.
>
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:03:06 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
> <grammatim@...> wrote:
>
> > Nicholas,
> >
> > What you describe is called "acoustic phonetics." It goes back at
least
> > to Helmholtz, and the Bells (Alexander Melville, Alexander Graham)
were
> > pioneers. The "sound spectrograph" was developed during (or before?)
> > WWII. and as soon as it was declassified, Martin Joos published a
> > detailed exposition of its discoveries (*Visible Speech*, 1947).
Major
> > (near-)contemporary names in acoustic phonetics include Ilse
Lehiste,
> > Peter Ladefoged, J. C. Catford, and Ian Maddieson.
> >
> > Crystal's *Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language* includes a full-page
>
> Aha! Asterisk delineators for book titles; I think I'll adopt those.
>
> > display of the largest consonant inventory known (a click language)
> > alongside the smallest (Rotomas)..
> > --
> > Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Nicholas B o d l e y
> Waltham, Mass.
> Why are subscripts becoming disused in chemical formulae?
> Is it that chemistry is not generally taught, or, laziness?
> The ASCII form I like is exemplified by "H_2O".
>