Infant speech researcher, John Esling, examining the content of a frame.

In 1999, a group of Tibetan monks arrived in Victoria to produce a mandala at the Victoria Art Gallery. Chant master Gedun Jungney kindly donated his time and larynx to the UVic laryngoscopic pharyngeal/laryngeal voice quality research project carried out by Dr. Esling.


Dr. John Esling with Jocelyn Clayards and Lynn Heap working with computerised analysis equipment.

Dr. Esling gets the nasendoscopic equipment ready to videotape the chant master's larynx in action.

Early field work on Lakota in South Dakota. Ben and Lucille Ite Ska with Dr. John Esling.

Chant master Gedun Jungney assisting the UVic laryngoscopic pharyngeal/laryngeal voice quality research project carried out by Dr. Esling.

Professor Li Shaoni of the University of Texas at Arlington and the National University of Minorities, Beijing, provided some interesting video and audio clips of Bái, a Tibeto-Burman language with complex register and tone.