books.google.com.au - Underlying 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...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Principles_of_Phonetics.html?id=zxKCbu536Z8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePrinciples of Phonetics