Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data. He was active at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Ibadan, Nigeria 1953-61. At Edinburgh he studied phonetics with David Abercrombie, who himself had studied with Daniel Jones and was thus connected to Henry Sweet. Wikipedia
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The UCLA Linguistics Department is mourning the loss of one of its most eminent members, Peter Ladefoged . Peter died suddenly on January 24, 2006, at the age of 80, while in London; he was changing flights on his way home from field work in India. Pete www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/remember/index.htm
Peter Ladefoged (1925-2006) was a professor in the UCLA Linguistics Department from 1962 to 1991, and thereafter a Research Linguist. www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/
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The Endangered Language Fund is a small non-profit organization based in New Haven, Connecticut. E.L.F. supports endangered language maintenance and documentation projects that aim to preserve the world's languages while contributing rare linguistic data sapir.ling.yale.edu/~elf/
The UCLA Phonetics Laboratory was established by Peter Ladefoged in the English Department in 1962 and moved with him to the new Linguistics Department in 1966. www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/faciliti/uclaplab....
