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Nikolai Trubetzkoy was a Russian linguist and Prague School founder whose 1939 Principles of Phonology helped define phonology as a field.
Roman Jakobson was a Russian-American linguist and Prague School figure noted for phonology, distinctive features, and his 1960 model of language functions.
Morris Halle was a Latvian-born American linguist at MIT, coauthor with Noam Chomsky of The Sound Pattern of English in 1968.
Paul Kiparsky is a Finnish-born linguist at Stanford, notable for major work in phonology, morphology, and lexical phonology.
Bernhard Karlgren was a Swedish sinologist (1889-1978) whose 1957 Grammata Serica Recensa became a major reference for Old and Middle Chinese.
John Ohala was an American phonetician at UC Berkeley, known for experimental phonology and explanations of sound change grounded in speech perception.
Alan Prince is an American linguist at Rutgers, best known for co-developing Optimality Theory with Paul Smolensky in 1993.
Larry Hyman is an American linguist at UC Berkeley, known for African languages, phonology, and influential work on tone systems.
John J. McCarthy is an American linguist at UMass Amherst, known for prosodic morphology and major work in Optimality Theory.
Bruce Hayes is an American linguist at UCLA, known for metrical phonology, Optimality Theory, and the 1995 book Metrical Stress Theory.
Janet Pierrehumbert is an American linguist, known for intonational phonology and her 1980 MIT dissertation on English intonation.
Joan Bybee is an American linguist known for usage-based phonology, grammaticalization research, and cross-linguistic work on grammar.
Paul Smolensky is an American cognitive scientist and linguist, co-developer with Alan Prince of Optimality Theory in 1993.
Donca Steriade is a Romanian-born linguist at MIT, known for phonological theory, laryngeal features, and perceptual accounts of markedness.
J. R. Firth was a British linguist who led the London School and developed prosodic analysis and the context-of-situation approach.
André Martinet was a French linguist associated with functional linguistics and the concept of double articulation in language structure.
Elisabeth Selkirk is an American linguist, known for prosodic phonology and influential work on the syntax-phonology interface.
Ian Maddieson is a British phonetician, known for phonological typology and for helping build the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database.
André-Georges Haudricourt was a French linguist whose 1954 study of Vietnamese helped explain tonogenesis from earlier consonants.
Edwin Pulleyblank was a Canadian sinologist (1922-2013) known for Chinese historical phonology, including his 1984 study of Middle Chinese.
Patricia Keating is an American phonetician at UCLA, known for laboratory phonology and research on articulatory and acoustic phonetics.
Keren Rice is a Canadian linguist known for work on Athabaskan languages, especially Slavey, and phonological theory.
Michael Kenstowicz is an American linguist at MIT, known for phonological theory and the 1994 textbook Phonology in Generative Grammar.
Stephen Anderson is an American linguist at Yale, known for morphology, phonology, and the 1992 book A-Morphous Morphology.
Carlos Gussenhoven is a Dutch linguist, known for phonology and intonation, including the 2004 book The Phonology of Tone and Intonation.
D. Robert Ladd is an American-born linguist at the University of Edinburgh, known for prosody and the 1996 book Intonational Phonology.
Kenneth L. Pike was an American linguist who developed tagmemics and popularized the emic and etic distinction in mid-20th-century linguistics.
William S-Y. Wang is a Chinese linguist born in Shanghai in 1933, known for work on Chinese phonology, language change, and language evolution.
Sharon Inkelas is an American linguist at UC Berkeley, known for morphology-phonology interaction and work on reduplication and cophonologies.
