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Peter Ladefoged was affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to the academic community with research and scholarship in linguistics and phonetics.

The available information does not list specific papers, coauthors, publication venues, book publications, fields, subfields, or main research topics associated with their work. Likewise, there are no recorded awards or distinctions in the present data.

Ladefoged's work was framed within the context of their institutional affiliation, which often indicates involvement in both teaching and research at a major research university.

As the scientist is deceased, this profile reflects their career in past tense based on the available data, presenting a factual overview devoid of evaluative commentary.

Best Publications

  • The Sounds of the World's Languages

    Peter Ladefoged;Ian Maddieson

  • A course in phonetics

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Variation and universals in VOT: evidence from 18 languages

    Taehong Cho;Peter Ladefoged

  • Information Conveyed by Vowels

    Peter Ladefoged;D. E. Broadbent

  • Fundamental problems in phonetics

    Unknown

  • Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet

    Carlos Gussenhoven;John Hajek;Madalena Cruz-Ferreira

  • Phonation types : a cross-linguistic overview

    Matthew Gordon;Peter Ladefoged

  • Acoustic and aerodynamic correlates of Korean stops and fricatives

    Taehong Cho;Sun-Ah Jun;Peter Ladefoged

  • Preliminaries to linguistic phonetics

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Vowels and consonants : an introduction to the sounds of languages

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Three areas of experimental phonetics

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Phonetic Data Analysis: An Introduction to Fieldwork and Instrumental Techniques

    Peter Ladefoged

  • A phonetic study of West African languages

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Factor analysis of tongue shapes.

    Richard Harshman;Peter Ladefoged;Louis Goldstein

  • Elements of Acoustic Phonetics

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Another view of endangered languages

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Vowels and Consonants

    Peter Ladefoged;Sandra Ferrari Disner

  • A phonetic study of West African languages: An auditory-instrumental survey

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Individual differences in vowel production

    Keith Johnson;Peter Ladefoged;Mona Lindau

  • Vowels of the world’s languages

    Peter Ladefoged;Ian Maddieson

  • Loudness, Sound Pressure, and Subglottal Pressure in Speech

    Peter Ladefoged;Norris P. McKinney

  • Stops in the World’s Languages

    Caroline Henton;Peter Ladefoged;Ian Maddieson

  • “Tense” and “lax” in four minority languages of China

    Ian Maddieson;Peter Ladefoged

  • Respiratory Muscles in Speech

    M. H. Draper;Peter Ladefoged;D. Whitteridge

  • Phonetic linguistics : essays in honor of Peter Ladefoged

    Peter Ladefoged;Victoria Fromkin

  • WHAT ARE LINGUISTIC SOUNDS MADE OF

    Peter Ladefoged

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald E. Broadbent
Donald E. Broadbent University of Oxford
Richard Wright
Richard Wright Georgia State University
Philip Lieberman
Philip Lieberman Brown University

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