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Peter Nielsen Ladefoged (/ ˈ l æ d ɪ f oʊ ɡ ɪ d / LAD-if-oh-ghid, Danish: [ˈpʰe̝ˀtɐ ˈne̝lsn̩ ˈlɛːðəˌfoːð̩]; 17 September 1925 – 24 January 2006) was a British linguist and phonetician.
Peter Ladefoged (1925-2006) was a professor in the UCLA Linguistics Department from 1962 to 1991, and thereafter a Research Linguist. He was preeminent in the field of phonetics. For biographical information and personal memories of Peter Ladefoged, see the page Remembering Peter Ladefoged.
May 6, 2010 · A phonologist's appreciation of Peter Ladefoged. Peter Ladefoged was trained in an ancient and hallowed tradition, descriptive British phonetics. He was the student of David Abercrombie, who was the student of Daniel Jones, who was (probably) the real-life model for Henry Higgins.
Jan 27, 2006 · Peter Ladefoged, the world's foremost linguistic phonetician and one of the most important figures in linguistics in the 20th century, died Tuesday, Jan. 24, at a London hospital after an illness on his way home from a research trip to India.
41) Ladefoged, Peter. 1972, Phonetic prerequisites for a distinctive feature theory. Papers in linguistics and phonetics to the memory of Pierre Delattre , ed. A. Valdman, 273-
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Feb 8, 2006 · Peter Ladefoged, an internationally renowned linguist who spent his life blissfully awash in the whistles, murmurs, pops, clicks and trills that make up the world's spoken languages, died...
Jan 28, 2006 · Peter Ladefoged, a leading linguist phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data, has died. He was 80.
