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Ladefoged, Peter

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Personal name headingLadefoged, Peter
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Birth date1925-09-17
Death date2006-01-24
Place of birthSutton (England)
Profession or occupationLinguist
Found inHis Elements of acoustic phonetics, 1962.
Phonetic linguistics, 1985: t.p. (Peter Ladefoged) p. xv (b. 9-17-25)
Washington post WWW site, Jan. 30, 2006 (Peter Ladefoged; b. Peter Nielsen Ladefoged, Sutton, England; d. Jan. 24, London, aged 80; pioneering linguist who consulted on the 1964 film My fair lady, in which actor Rex Harrison plays a phonetician)
New York times WWW site, Feb. 13, 2006 (in obituary published Feb. 8: Peter Ladefoged; b. Peter Nielsen Ladefoged, Sept. 17, 1925, Sutton, England; d. Jan. 24, London, aged 80; internationally renowned linguist who spent his life blissfully awash in the whistles, murmurs, pops, clicks, and trills that make up the world's spoken languages)