Dr. John H. Esling

John H. Esling has a B.A. in History, Political Science and Languages from Northwestern University, an M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Phonetics from the University of Edinburgh. He taught at the University of Leeds before coming to the University of Victoria in 1981. He is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Victoria and Secretary of the International Phonetic Association. His main work is in the areas of Phonetics and Applied Linguistics, and his research is on the auditory categorization of voice quality and on the phonetic production of laryngeal and pharyngeal speech. He is the author of the University of Victoria Phonetic Database on CD-ROM and an editor of the Handbook of the IPA, and has participated in the development of several phonetics teaching and speech analysis software programs.


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