Peter Ladefoged

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Peter Ladefoged [ˈlædɪfəʊgɪd] (1925-) is a British-American phonetician. He has been active at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Ibadan, Nigeria 1953-61. He is currently Professor of Phonetics Emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he taught from 1962–1991. His book A Course in Phonetics is a common introductory text in phonetics, and The Sounds of the World's Languages is widely regarded as a standard phonetics reference. Ladefoged has also written several books on the phonetics of African languages.

Ladefoged earned his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1959. Ladefoged has been involved with the phonetics laboratory at UCLA since he set it up in the 1960s. He also has been interested in listening to and describing every sound used in spoken human language, which he estimates at 900 consonants and 200 vowels. This research formed the basis of much of The Sounds of the World's Languages. Ladefoged has also long been a member of the International Phonetic Association, and has been involved in maintaining its International Phonetic Alphabet. He is also editor of the Journal of the International Phonetic Association.

Bibliography

  • Language in Uganda (zusammen mit Ruth Glick & Clive Criper). - Oxford : Univ. Pr., 1972. - ISBN 0-19-436101-2
  • A phonetic study of West African languages. - Cambridge : Univ. Pr., 1968
  • Preliminaries to linguistic phonetics. - Chicago, Ill. : Univ. Pr., 1971
  • Three areas of experimental phonetics : stress and respiratory activity, the nature of vowel quality, units in the perception and production of speech. - Oxford : Univ. Pr., 1975. - ISBN 0-19-437110-7

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