Download or read book Preliminaries to Linguistic Phonetics written by Peter Ladefoged and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about some of the phonetic events that occur in the languages of the world. The data described consist mainly of contrasts observable at the systematic phonetic level in a wide variety of languages.