Peter Ladefoged
Born: September 17, 1925
Died: January 4, 2006 (aged 80)
Bio: Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was a British linguist and phonetician who travelled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data.
Known for:
- A course in phonetics (1975)
- Vowels and Consonants (2001)
- The sounds of the world's languages (1996)
- Elements of Acoustic Phonetics (1962)
- Phonetic data analysis (2003)
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