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Peter Ladefoged

May 20, 2023

Peter Nielsen Ladefoged (/ˈlædɪfoʊɡɪd/ LAD-if-oh-ghid,[1] Danish: [ˈpʰe̝ˀtɐ ˈne̝lsn̩ ˈlɛːðəˌfoːð̩];[2] 17 September 1925 – 24 January 2006) was a British linguist and phonetician.[3]

Peter Ladefoged
Ladefoged in 2004
Born(1925-09-17)17 September 1925
Sutton, London, England
Died24 January 2006(2006-01-24) (aged 80)
London, England
Alma mater
Scientific career
Doctoral studentsJohn Ohala

He was Professor of Phonetics 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 wrote several books on the phonetics of African languages. Prior to UCLA, he was a lecturer at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland (1953–59, 1960–1) and Ibadan, Nigeria (1959–60).[4]

Early life

Peter Ladefoged was born on 17 September 1925, in Sutton (then in Surrey, now in Greater London), England. He attended Haileybury College from 1938 to 1943, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Cambridge University from 1943 to 1944. He received an MA (1951) and a PhD (1959) in Phonetics from the University of Edinburgh in 1959.[5][6]

Career

Ladefoged was involved with the phonetics laboratory at UCLA, which he established in 1962. He also was interested in listening to and describing every sound used in spoken human language, which he estimated at 900 consonants and 200 vowels.[7] This research formed the basis of much of The Sounds of the World's Languages. In 1966 Ladefoged moved from the UCLA English Department to join the newly established Linguistics Department.[8]

While at UCLA, Ladefoged was hired as a consultant on the movie My Fair Lady. He wrote the transcriptions that can be seen in Professor Higgins's notebook, and his voice was used in the scenes where Higgins describes vowel pronunciation.[9]

Ladefoged was also a member of the International Phonetic Association for a long time, and was President of the Association from 1986 to 1991. He was deeply involved in maintaining its International Phonetic Alphabet, and was the principal mover of the 1989 International Phonetic Association Kiel Convention. He was also editor of the Journal of the International Phonetic Association. Ladefoged served on the board of directors of the Endangered Language Fund since its inception.

Ladefoged was a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.[8]

Personal life

Ladefoged married Jenny MacDonald in 1953, a marriage which lasted over 50 years.[10] They had three children: Lise Friedman, a bookseller; Thegn Ladefoged, archaeologist and professor of anthropology at University of Auckland;[11] and Katie Ladefoged, attorney and public defender, residing in Nashville, Tennessee.[10] He also had five grandchildren Zelda Ladefoged, Ethan Friedman, Amy Friedman, Joseph Weiss, and Catherine Weiss.

On May 5, 1970, Ladefoged was arrested and suffered injuries from police while participating in an anti–Vietnam War protest at UCLA.[12][13] He was initially charged with failure to disperse, but the charge was later changed to assault on a police officer. He was acquitted in the first trial.[14]

Death

Ladefoged died on 24 January 2006 at the age of 80 in hospital in London, England after a research trip to India.[8] He was on his way home to Los Angeles, California from his research trip.[15]

Academic timeline

  • 1953–55: Assistant Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Edinburgh
  • 1955–59: Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Edinburgh
  • 1959–60: Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
  • 1960–61: Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Edinburgh
  • 1961–62: Field fellow, Linguistic Survey of West Africa, Nigeria
  • Summer 1960: University of Michigan
  • Summer 1961: Royal Institute of Technology, [Kungliga Tekniska högskolan or KTH], (Stockholm, Sweden)
  • 1962–63: Assistant Professor of Phonetics, Department of English, UCLA
  • 1962: Established, and directed until 1991, the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory
  • 1963–65: Associate Professor of Phonetics, Department of Linguistics], UCLA
  • 1965–91: Professor of Phonetics, Department of Linguistics, UCLA
  • 1977–80: Chair, Department of Linguistics, UCLA
  • 1991: "retired" to become UCLA Research Linguist, Distinguished Professor of Phonetics Emeritus
  • 2005: Leverhulme Professor, University of Edinburgh
  • 2005–06: Adjunct professor at the University of Southern California (USC)

Academic honours

Selected publications

  • Ladefoged (1962). The nature of vowel quality.
    Monograph supplement to Revista do Laboratório de Fonética Experimental da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
    (Journal of Experimental Phonetics Laboratory of the Faculty of Arts, University of Coimbra).
  • Ladefoged (1962). Elements of acoustic phonetics. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-46764-3. Paperback edition 1971. Translation into Japanese, Taishukan Publishing Company, 1976. Second edition, with added chapters on computational phonetics 1996.
  • Ladefoged (1964). A phonetic study of west African languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University. ISBN 0-521-06963-7. Reprinted 1968.
  • Ladefoged (1967). Three areas of experimental phonetics. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-437110-7.
  • Ladefoged, Peter; Ruth Glick; Clive Criper (1969). Language in Uganda. Nairobi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-436101-2.
  • Ladefoged (1971). Preliminaries to linguistic phonetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Ladefoged (1975). A course in phonetics. Orlando: Harcourt Brace. ISBN 0-15-507319-2. 2nd ed 1982, 3rd ed. 1993, 4th ed. 2001, 5th ed. Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth 2006, 6th ed. 2011 (co-author Keith Johnson) Boston: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. Japanese translation 2000.
  • Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-19815-4.
  • Ladefoged (2001). Vowels and consonants: An introduction to the sounds of languages. Oxford: Blackwells. ISBN 0-631-21412-7. 2001, 2nd ed. 2004.
  • Ladefoged (2003). Phonetic data analysis: An introduction to instrumental phonetic fieldwork. Oxford: Blackwells. ISBN 0-631-23270-2.
  • Ladefoged (2006). Interactive CD-ROM for "A Course in Phonetics". ISBN 1-4130-1420-8.
  • Ladefoged (2006). Representing linguistic phonetic structure (PDF). Faculty profile: UCLA, draft, in progress before death. {{cite book}}: External link in |location= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)

Works involved in or about

References

  1. ^ Vowels and consonants: an introduction to the sounds of languages. 2001. p. 74.
  2. ^ Brink, Lars; Lund, Jørn; Heger, Steffen; Jørgensen, J. Normann (1991). Den Store Danske Udtaleordbog. Copenhagen: Munksgaard. ISBN 87-16-06649-9.
  3. ^ "Peter Ladefoged's home page". Lnguistics.ucla.edu. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  4. ^ "Obituary: Peter Ladefoged". UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  5. ^ Nelson, Valerie J. (28 January 2006). "Peter Ladefoged, 80; Documented Endangered Languages". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  6. ^ Ladefoged, Peter (1959). "The perception of vowel sounds". hdl:1842/28389. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ "Peter Nielsen Ladefoged | American linguist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  8. ^ a b c Fox, Margalit (8 February 2006). "Peter Ladefoged, 80, Linguist Who Was Immersed in Speech, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  9. ^ Peter Ladefoged, in Phonetic data analysis: An introduction to fieldwork and instrumental techniques (Wiley-Blackwell), 2003, p. 28
  10. ^ a b "Peter Ladefoged's home page". linguistics.ucla.edu. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  11. ^ "Professor Thegn Ladefoged – The University of Auckland". Artsfaculty.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  12. ^ Dundjerski, Marina (2011). UCLA: The First Century. Third Millennium. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-906507-37-4.
  13. ^ Mora, Carlos (2007). Latinos in the West: The Student Movement and Academic Labor in Los Angeles. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 54–5, 92. ISBN 978-0-7425-4784-1.
  14. ^ "Teacher Asks $327,562 for UCLA Arrest". Los Angeles Times. 25 July 1970. p. 23.
  15. ^ "LINGUIST List 17.353: Obituary: Peter Ladefoged". The LINGUIST List. 1 February 2006. Retrieved 5 March 2019.

External links

  •   Quotations related to Peter Ladefoged at Wikiquote
  • Peter Ladefoged's home page at UCLA
  • Remembering Peter Ladefoged

May 20, 2023
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Peter Nielsen Ladefoged ˈ l ae d ɪ f oʊ ɡ ɪ d LAD if oh ghid 1 Danish ˈpʰe ˀtɐ ˈne lsn ˈlɛːdeˌfoːd 2 17 September 1925 24 January 2006 was a British linguist and phonetician 3 Peter LadefogedLadefoged in 2004Born 1925 09 17 17 September 1925Sutton London EnglandDied24 January 2006 2006 01 24 aged 80 London EnglandAlma materGonville and Caius College CambridgeUniversity of EdinburghScientific careerDoctoral studentsJohn OhalaHe was Professor of Phonetics 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 wrote several books on the phonetics of African languages Prior to UCLA he was a lecturer at the universities of Edinburgh Scotland 1953 59 1960 1 and Ibadan Nigeria 1959 60 4 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Death 5 Academic timeline 6 Academic honours 7 Selected publications 8 Works involved in or about 9 References 10 External linksEarly life EditPeter Ladefoged was born on 17 September 1925 in Sutton then in Surrey now in Greater London England He attended Haileybury College from 1938 to 1943 and Gonville and Caius College Cambridge Cambridge University from 1943 to 1944 He received an MA 1951 and a PhD 1959 in Phonetics from the University of Edinburgh in 1959 5 6 Career EditLadefoged was involved with the phonetics laboratory at UCLA which he established in 1962 He also was interested in listening to and describing every sound used in spoken human language which he estimated at 900 consonants and 200 vowels 7 This research formed the basis of much of The Sounds of the World s Languages In 1966 Ladefoged moved from the UCLA English Department to join the newly established Linguistics Department 8 While at UCLA Ladefoged was hired as a consultant on the movie My Fair Lady He wrote the transcriptions that can be seen in Professor Higgins s notebook and his voice was used in the scenes where Higgins describes vowel pronunciation 9 Ladefoged was also a member of the International Phonetic Association for a long time and was President of the Association from 1986 to 1991 He was deeply involved in maintaining its International Phonetic Alphabet and was the principal mover of the 1989 International Phonetic Association Kiel Convention He was also editor of the Journal of the International Phonetic Association Ladefoged served on the board of directors of the Endangered Language Fund since its inception Ladefoged was a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 8 Personal life EditLadefoged married Jenny MacDonald in 1953 a marriage which lasted over 50 years 10 They had three children Lise Friedman a bookseller Thegn Ladefoged archaeologist and professor of anthropology at University of Auckland 11 and Katie Ladefoged attorney and public defender residing in Nashville Tennessee 10 He also had five grandchildren Zelda Ladefoged Ethan Friedman Amy Friedman Joseph Weiss and Catherine Weiss On May 5 1970 Ladefoged was arrested and suffered injuries from police while participating in an anti Vietnam War protest at UCLA 12 13 He was initially charged with failure to disperse but the charge was later changed to assault on a police officer He was acquitted in the first trial 14 Death EditLadefoged died on 24 January 2006 at the age of 80 in hospital in London England after a research trip to India 8 He was on his way home to Los Angeles California from his research trip 15 Academic timeline Edit1953 55 Assistant Lecturer in Phonetics University of Edinburgh 1955 59 Lecturer in Phonetics University of Edinburgh 1959 60 Lecturer in Phonetics University of Ibadan Nigeria 1960 61 Lecturer in Phonetics University of Edinburgh 1961 62 Field fellow Linguistic Survey of West Africa Nigeria Summer 1960 University of Michigan Summer 1961 Royal Institute of Technology Kungliga Tekniska hogskolan or KTH Stockholm Sweden 1962 63 Assistant Professor of Phonetics Department of English UCLA 1962 Established and directed until 1991 the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory 1963 65 Associate Professor of Phonetics Department of Linguistics UCLA 1965 91 Professor of Phonetics Department of Linguistics UCLA 1977 80 Chair Department of Linguistics UCLA 1991 retired to become UCLA Research Linguist Distinguished Professor of Phonetics Emeritus 2005 Leverhulme Professor University of Edinburgh 2005 06 Adjunct professor at the University of Southern California USC Academic honours EditFellow of the Acoustical Society of America Fellow of the American Speech and Hearing Association Distinguished Teaching Award UCLA 1972 President Linguistic Society of America 1978 President of the Permanent Council for the Organization of International Congresses of Phonetic Sciences 1983 1991 President International Phonetic Association 1987 1991 UCLA Research Lecturer 1989 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1990 UCLA College of Letters and Science Faculty Research Lecturer 1991 Gold medal XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 1991 Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy 1992 Honorary D Litt University of Edinburgh 1993 Foreign Member Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 1993 Silver medal Acoustical Society of America 1994 Corresponding Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh 2001 Honorary D Sc Queen Margaret University Edinburgh 2002Selected publications EditLadefoged 1962 The nature of vowel quality Monograph supplement to Revista do Laboratorio de Fonetica Experimental da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra Journal of Experimental Phonetics Laboratory of the Faculty of Arts University of Coimbra Ladefoged 1962 Elements of acoustic phonetics University of Chicago Press ISBN 0 226 46764 3 Paperback edition 1971 Translation into Japanese Taishukan Publishing Company 1976 Second edition with added chapters on computational phonetics 1996 Ladefoged 1964 A phonetic study of west African languages Cambridge Cambridge University ISBN 0 521 06963 7 Reprinted 1968 Ladefoged 1967 Three areas of experimental phonetics London Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 437110 7 Ladefoged Peter Ruth Glick Clive Criper 1969 Language in Uganda Nairobi Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 436101 2 Ladefoged 1971 Preliminaries to linguistic phonetics Chicago University of Chicago Press Ladefoged 1975 A course in phonetics Orlando Harcourt Brace ISBN 0 15 507319 2 2nd ed 1982 3rd ed 1993 4th ed 2001 5th ed Boston Thomson Wadsworth 2006 6th ed 2011 co author Keith Johnson Boston Wadsworth Cengage Learning Japanese translation 2000 Ladefoged Peter Maddieson Ian 1996 The Sounds of the World s Languages Oxford Blackwell ISBN 978 0 631 19815 4 Ladefoged 2001 Vowels and consonants An introduction to the sounds of languages Oxford Blackwells ISBN 0 631 21412 7 2001 2nd ed 2004 Ladefoged 2003 Phonetic data analysis An introduction to instrumental phonetic fieldwork Oxford Blackwells ISBN 0 631 23270 2 Ladefoged 2006 Interactive CD ROM for A Course in Phonetics ISBN 1 4130 1420 8 Ladefoged 2006 Representing linguistic phonetic structure PDF Faculty profile UCLA draft in progress before death a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a External link in code class cs1 code location code help CS1 maint postscript link Works involved in or about EditGeorge Cukor director Alan Jay Lerner lyricist My Fair Lady Motion picture film 1964 Fromkin Victoria A editor 1985 Phonetic linguistics Essays in honor of Peter Ladefoged Orlando Academic Press ISBN 0 12 268990 9 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a author2 has generic name help References Edit Vowels and consonants an introduction to the sounds of languages 2001 p 74 Brink Lars Lund Jorn Heger Steffen Jorgensen J Normann 1991 Den Store Danske Udtaleordbog Copenhagen Munksgaard ISBN 87 16 06649 9 Peter Ladefoged s home page Lnguistics ucla edu Retrieved 19 November 2017 Obituary Peter Ladefoged UCLA Newsroom Retrieved 17 July 2015 Nelson Valerie J 28 January 2006 Peter Ladefoged 80 Documented Endangered Languages Los Angeles Times ISSN 0458 3035 Retrieved 5 March 2019 Ladefoged Peter 1959 The perception of vowel sounds hdl 1842 28389 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Peter Nielsen Ladefoged American linguist Encyclopedia Britannica Retrieved 5 March 2019 a b c Fox Margalit 8 February 2006 Peter Ladefoged 80 Linguist Who Was Immersed in Speech Is Dead The New York Times Retrieved 26 August 2018 Peter Ladefoged in Phonetic data analysis An introduction to fieldwork and instrumental techniques Wiley Blackwell 2003 p 28 a b Peter Ladefoged s home page linguistics ucla edu Retrieved 5 March 2019 Professor Thegn Ladefoged The University of Auckland Artsfaculty auckland ac nz Retrieved 19 November 2017 Dundjerski Marina 2011 UCLA The First Century Third Millennium p 186 ISBN 978 1 906507 37 4 Mora Carlos 2007 Latinos in the West The Student Movement and Academic Labor in Los Angeles Rowman amp Littlefield pp 54 5 92 ISBN 978 0 7425 4784 1 Teacher Asks 327 562 for UCLA Arrest Los Angeles Times 25 July 1970 p 23 LINGUIST List 17 353 Obituary Peter Ladefoged The LINGUIST List 1 February 2006 Retrieved 5 March 2019 External links Edit Quotations related to Peter Ladefoged at Wikiquote Peter Ladefoged s home page at UCLA Remembering Peter Ladefoged Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Peter Ladefoged amp oldid 1138172353, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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