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Janet Pierrehumbert is an American linguist, known for intonational phonology and her 1980 MIT dissertation on English intonation.
J. R. Firth was a British linguist who led the London School and developed prosodic analysis and the context-of-situation approach.
Elisabeth Selkirk is an American linguist, known for prosodic phonology and influential work on the syntax-phonology interface.
Mary Beckman is an American linguist at Ohio State University, known for prosody, phonetics, and the ToBI annotation system for intonation.
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.
Norvin Richards is an American MIT linguist known for syntactic theory, especially wh-movement, prosody-syntax relations, and Contiguity Theory.
Julia Hirschberg is an American computer scientist and linguist at Columbia, known for speech prosody and spoken dialogue systems.
Sharon Inkelas is an American linguist at UC Berkeley, known for morphology-phonology interaction and work on reduplication and cophonologies.
San Duanmu is a Chinese-American linguist at the University of Michigan, known for Chinese phonology and the 2000 book The Phonology of Standard Chinese.
Haruo Kubozono is a Japanese linguist known for Japanese phonology and pitch accent, with major work at Japan's National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
Ellen Kaisse is an American linguist at the University of Washington, known for phonology, syntax-phonology interfaces, and Greek linguistics.
