Peter Ladefoged, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPeter Ladefoged
British phonetician
Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1925
Place of Birth: London Borough of Sutton, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 24-Jan-2006
Profession: linguist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Peter Ladefoged
- Peter Nielsen Ladefoged ( LAD-if-oh-ghid, Danish: [p?et? nelsn? 'læ?ðfo??ð]; 17 September 1925 – 24 January 2006) was a British linguist and phonetician.He was Professor of Phonetics at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he taught from 1962 to 1991.
- His book A Course in Phonetics is a common introductory text in phonetics, and The Sounds of the World's Languages (co-authored with Ian Maddieson) is widely regarded as a standard phonetics reference.
- Ladefoged also wrote several books on the phonetics of African languages.
- Prior to UCLA, he was a lecturer at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland (1953–59, 1960–1) and Ibadan, Nigeria (1959–60).
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