About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Speech perception researchers, Daniel Jones, Qian Xuantong, Peter Ladefoged, Philip Rubin, Howard Nusbaum, John C. Wells, Yi Tso-lin, Alexander Melville Bell, Harvey Fletcher, Henry Sweet, Donald Shankweiler, Franklin Seaney Cooper, Dominic W. Massaro, Eleanor Saffran, Katherine Safford Harris, Alvin Liberman, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, Jennifer S. Cole, Alexander Crum Brown, Michael Turvey, Robert Robinson, Robert Remez, Donald Broadbent, Ignatius Mattingly, Louis M. Goldstein, Alan S. C. Ross, Wallace Chafe, Arthur S. Abramson, Ian Catford, Fatima Miranda, Carol Fowler, Gunnar Fant, Juan Pablo Bonet, James J. Jenkins, Louis Colaianni, James McClelland, Jeffrey Elman, Mary Beckman, Eli Fischer-Jorgensen, Janet Pierrehumbert, Luciano Canepari, John Local, Mark Liberman, Douglas Whalen, John Samuel Kenyon, Alfred C. Gimson, Lori L. Holt, Herbert Pilch, Ian Maddieson, David Abercrombie, John Ohala, Francis Nolan, Jean-Pierre Rousselot, Kenneth N. Stevens, Ian Wilson, Paul Boersma. Excerpt: Peter Nielsen Ladefoged (pronounced; September 17, 1925 - January 24, 2006) was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data . He was active at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Ibadan, Nigeria 1953-61 . At Edinburgh he studied phonetics with David Abercrombie, who himself had studied with Daniel Jones and was thus connected to Henry Sweet. At the time of his death, he was Professor of Phonetics Emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he taught from 1962 to 1991. His book A Course in Phonetics is a common introductory text in phonetics, and The Sounds of the World's Languages (co-authored with Ian Maddieson) is widely regarded as a standard phonetics reference. Ladefoged also w...
