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Peter Ladefoged was a British phonetician at UCLA, known for field phonetics and the 1975 book A Course in Phonetics.
John Ohala was an American phonetician at UC Berkeley, known for experimental phonology and explanations of sound change grounded in speech perception.
Janet Pierrehumbert is an American linguist, known for intonational phonology and her 1980 MIT dissertation on English intonation.
Donca Steriade is a Romanian-born linguist at MIT, known for phonological theory, laryngeal features, and perceptual accounts of markedness.
David Crystal is a British linguist and author, notable for popular reference works including The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, first published in 1987.
Ian Maddieson is a British phonetician, known for phonological typology and for helping build the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database.
Patricia Keating is an American phonetician at UCLA, known for laboratory phonology and research on articulatory and acoustic phonetics.
Mary Beckman is an American linguist at Ohio State University, known for prosody, phonetics, and the ToBI annotation system for intonation.
