Contact Information
office: Clearihue D340
phone: 250.721.7422
fax: 250.721.7423
e-mail: esling@uvic.ca
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. He is former Secretary of the
International
Phonetic Association and currently Editor of the Journal 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.
Recent Works - click to view/hide
Selected Publications
Moisik, Scott R. & Esling, John H. (2007). 3-D auditory-articulatory modeling of the laryngeal constrictor mechanism. In J. Trouvain & W.J. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 1 (pp. 373-376). Saarbrücken: Universität des Saarlandes.
Zeroual, Chakir, Hoole, Phil, Fuchs, Susanne, & Esling, John H. (2007). EMA study of the coronal emphatic and non-emphatic plosive consonants of Moroccan Arabic. In J. Trouvain & W.J. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 1 (pp. 397-400). Saarbrücken: Universität des Saarlandes.
Esling, John H., Zeroual, Chakir, & Crevier-Buchman, Lise. (2007). A study of muscular synergies at the glottal, ventricular and aryepiglottic levels. In J. Trouvain & W.J. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 1 (pp. 585-588). Saarbrücken: Universität des Saarlandes.
Grenon, Izabelle, Benner, Allison, & Esling, John H. (2007). Language-specific phonetic production patterns in the first year of life. In J. Trouvain & W.J. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 3 (pp. 1561-1564). Saarbrücken: Universität des Saarlandes.
Hassan, Zeki Majeed & Esling, John H. (2007). Laryngoscopic (articulatory) and acoustic evidence of a prevailing emphatic feature over the word in Arabic. In J. Trouvain & W.J. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 3 (pp. 1753-1756). Saarbrücken: Universität des Saarlandes.
Edmondson, Jerold A., Padayodi, Cécile M., Hassan, Zeki Majeed, & Esling, John H. (2007). The laryngeal articulator: Source and resonator. In J. Trouvain & W.J. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 3 (pp. 2065-2068). Saarbrücken: Universität des Saarlandes.
Benner, Allison, Grenon, Izabelle, & Esling, John H. (2007). Infants' phonetic acquisition of voice quality parameters in the first year of life. In J. Trouvain & W.J. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 3 (pp. 2073-2076). Saarbrücken: Universität des Saarlandes.
Esling, John H. (2007). Articulations in the pharynx: the laryngeal constrictor. In Jimmy G. Harris, Somsonge Burusphat, & James E. Harris (Eds.), Studies in Tai and Southeast Asian Linguistics (pp. 65-88). Bangkok: Ekphimthai.
Zeroual, Chakir, Fuchs, Susanne, Hoole, Phil, & Esling, John H. (2006). Kinematic study of Moroccan Arabic simple and geminate obstruents: Evidence from transillumination. Proceedings of ISSP 2006 7th International Seminar on Speech Production (paper 75). São Paulo: CEFALA.org.
Zeroual, Chakir, Esling, John H., & Crevier-Buchman, Lise. (2006). The contribution of supraglottic laryngeal adjustments to voice: Phonetic evidence from Arabic. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology. DOI: 10.1080/14015430600576253.
Esling, John H., & Harris, Jimmy G. (2006). Some basic states of the glottis in Tai languages. In James E. Harris (Ed.), Readings in Articulatory Phonetics: Volume 1. Consonants and Phonation Types (pp. 9-22). Bangkok: Ekphimthai.
Catford, J. C. & Esling, John H. (2006). Articulatory phonetics. In K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edn.), vol. 9 (pp. 425-442). Oxford: Elsevier.
Esling, John H. (2006). States of the glottis. In K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edn.) vol. 12 (pp. 129-132). Oxford: Elsevier.
Esling, John H. (2006). Voice quality. In K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edn.) vol. 13 (pp. 470-474). Oxford: Elsevier.
Edmondson, Jerold A., & Esling, John H. (2006). The valves of the throat and their functioning in tone, vocal register, and stress: laryngoscopic case studies. Phonology, 23(2), 157-191.
Esling, John H. (2005). There are no back vowels: The laryngeal articulator model. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 50, 13-44.
Esling, John H., Fraser, Katherine E., & Harris, Jimmy G. (2005). Glottal stop, glottalized resonants, and pharyngeals: a reinterpretation with evidence from a laryngoscopic study of Nuuchahnulth (Nootka). Journal of Phonetics, 33, 383-410.
Edmondson, Jerold A., Esling, John H., Harris, Jimmy G., & Huang Tung-chiou. (2005). A laryngoscopic study of glottal and epiglottal/pharyngeal stop and continuant articulations in Amis - an Austronesian language of Taiwan. Language and Linguistics, 6, 381-396.
Zeroual, Chakir, Esling, John H., & Crevier-Buchman, Lise. (2005). Physiological study of whispered speech in Moroccan Arabic. Interspeech 2005 Proceedings (pp. 1069-1072). Lisbon.
Esling, John H. (2005). How the pharyngeal resonator is controlled articulatorily. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 2489.
Esling, John H., & Harris, Jimmy G. (2005). States of the glottis: An articulatory phonetic model based on laryngoscopic observations. In W. J. Hardcastle & J. Beck (Eds.), A Figure of Speech: A Festschrift for John Laver (pp. 347-383). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Edmondson, Jerold A., Esling, John H., Harris, Jimmy G., & Wei, James. (2004). A phonetic study of Sui consonants and vowels. Mon-Khmer Studies, 34, 47-66.
(2004). Carlson, Barry F., Esling, John H., & Harris, Jimmy G. A laryngoscopic phonetic study of Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) Salish glottal stop, glottalized resonants, and pharyngeals. In D. B. Gerdts & L. Matthewson (Eds.), Studies in Salish linguistics in honor of M. Dale Kinkade, Occasional Papers in Linguistics No. 17 (pp, 58-71). Missoula: University of Montana Press.
(2004). Esling, John H., Benner, Allison, Bettany, Lisa, & Zeroual, Chakir. Le contrôle articulatoire phonétique dans le prébabillage. In B. Bel & I. Marlien (Eds.), Actes des XXVes Journées d'Étude sur la Parole (pp. 205-208). Fès: AFCP.
(2004). Zeroual, Chakir, Crevier-Buchman, Lise, & Esling, John H. Ajustements laryngaux durant les consonnes gutturales et l'emphatique [S] simples et géminées de l'arabe marocain. In B. Bel & I. Marlien (Eds.), Actes des XXVes Journées d'Étude sur la Parole (pp. 469-472). Fès: AFCP.
(2004). Zeroual, Chakir, Esling, John H., & Crevier-Buchman, Lise. Ajustements supralaryngaux durant les consonnes gutturales et l'emphatique [S] simples et géminées de l'arabe marocain. InB. Bel & I. Marlien (Eds.), Actes des XXVes Journées d'Étude sur la Parole (pp. 473-476). Fès: AFCP.
(2004). Esling, John H. Vowel systems and voice setting in the Survey of Vancouver English. Journal of English Linguistics. In G. D. de Wolf, M. Fee & J. McAlpine (Eds.), The Survey of Vancouver English: A sociolinguistic study of urban Canadian English. Strathy Language Unit, Occasional Papers no. 5 (pp. 253-288). Kingston, ON: Queen's University.
(2003). Carlson, Barry F., & Esling, John H. Phonetics and physiology of the historical shift of uvulars to pharyngeals in Nuuchahnulth (Nootka). Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 33, 183-193.
(2003). The laryngeal sphincter as an articulator: How register and phonation interact with vowel quality and tone. WECOL, 14, 68-86.
(2003). Esling, John H., & Harris, Jimmy G. An expanded taxonomy of states of the glottis. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 1, pp. 1049-1052. Barcelona: UAB.
(2003). Esling, John H. Glottal and epiglottal stop in Wakashan, Salish and Semitic. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 2, pp. 1707-1710. Barcelona: UAB.
(2003). Gao Man, & Esling, John H. Articulatory features of tones in whispered Chinese. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 3, pp. 2629-2632. Barcelona: UAB.
(2002). Esling, John H. Laryngoscopic analysis of Tibetan chanting modes and their relationship to register in Sino-Tibetan. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, vol. 2 (pp. 1081-1084). Adelaide: Causal Productions.
(2002). Esling, John H. Articulations produced in the pharynx. In K. N. Reddy & A. R. Fatihi (Eds.). Studies in phonetics and phonology - with reference to Indian languages. New Delhi: ESS Publications, Aligarh and Creative Publications.
(2002). Esling, John H., & Edmondson, Jerold A. The laryngeal sphincter as an articulator: Tenseness, tongue root and phonation in Yi and Bai. In Angelika Braun & Herbert R. Masthoff (eds.), Phonetics and its applications: Festschrift for Jens-Peter Koster on the occasion of his 60th birthday (pp. 38-51). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
(2001). The aryepiglottic folds and voice quality in the Yi and Bai languages: Laryngoscopic case studies (with Edmondson, Lama, Harris & Li). Mon-Khmer Studies, 31, 83-100.
(2001). Nuuchahnulth (with B.F. Carlson & K. Fraser). Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 31, 275-279.
(2000). Spokane (with B.F. Carlson). Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 30, 101-106.
(2000). The aryepiglottic folds and voice quality in Yi and Bai languages: Laryngoscopic case studies. (with J.A. Edmondson, Li Shaoni, J.G. Harris & Lama Ziwo). Minzu Yuwen, 2000(6), 47-53 (in Chinese).
(2000). Crosslinguistic aspects of voice quality. In R.D. Kent & M.J. Ball (Eds.), Voice quality measurement (pp. 25-35). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.
(2000). The transcription of voice quality (with M.J. Ball & B.C. Dickson). In R.D. Kent & M.J. Ball (Eds.), Voice quality measurement(pp. 49-58). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.
(1999). The IPA categories "pharyngeal" and "epiglottal": Laryngoscopic observations of pharyngeal articulations and larynx height. Language & Speech, 42, 349-372.
(1999). Laryngoscopic analysis of pharyngeal articulations and larynx-height voice quality settings (with J.A.W. Clayards). In A. Braun(Ed.), Advances in Phonetics (Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, Beiheft 106) (pp. 22-33. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag).
(1999). University of Victoria Phonetic Database (version 4.0). Victoria: Speech Technology Research Ltd.; and Lincoln Park, NJ: Kay Elemetrics Corp.
(1999). A multimedia approach to learning phonetic transcription (with J. Clayards & M. Holmes).Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 2 (pp. 1133-1136). Berkeley: University of California. 4032
(1999). Voice quality settings of the pharynx. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 3 (pp. 2449-2452). Berkeley: University of California.
(1999). Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A guide to the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (Edited with F.J. Nolan). Cambridge University Press.
(1998). Laryngoscopic analysis of pharyngeal articulations and larynx-height voice quality settings. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, vol. 2 (pp.543-546). Sydney: ASSTA.
(1998). Quantification of pharyngeal articulations using aryepiglottic angle measurements from laryngoscopic images (with J.A.W. Clayards, J.A. Edmondson, F-Y. Qiu & J.G. Harris). Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, vol. 7 (pp. 3091-3094). Sydney: ASSTA.
(1998). Everyone has an accent except me. In L. Bauer & P. Trudgill (Eds.), Language myths (pp. 169-175). Penguin Books.
(1998). The teacher's ear: Phonetics in the classroom. TESOL Matters,8(5), 21.
(1997). Character codes and computer readable alphabets (with C. Draxler & J. Wells). In D. Gibbon, R. Moore & R. Winski (Eds.), Handbook of standards and resources for spoken language systems (pp.654-683). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
(1996). Pharyngeal consonants and the aryepiglottic sphincter. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 26, 65-88.
(1996). Computer-assisted development of spoken language skills (with M.C. Pennington). In M.C. Pennington (Ed.), The power of CALL (pp. 153-189). Houston: Athelstan.
(1995). The VoQS system for the transcription of voice quality(with M.J. Ball & B.C. Dickson). Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 25, 71-80.
(1995). Open vowel backing in Canadian English (with H.J. Warkentyne). Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 3 (pp. 700-703). Stockholm: KTH and Stockholm University.
(1995). Pharyngeal phonetics: Larynx height, tongue root, and pitch dependence. Chicago Linguistic Society, 31, 143-152.
(1995). The low vowels of Vancouver English (with H.J. Warkentyne). In J. Windsor Lewis (Ed.), Studies in general and English phonetics: Essays in honour of Prof. J.D. O'Connor (pp. 395-400). London: Routledge.
(1994). Effets sur le signal vocal de changements délibérés de qualité globale en anglais et français (with B. Harmegnies, V. Delplancq & M. Bruyninckx). Revue de Phonétique Appliquée, 111, 139-153.
(1994). Some perspectives on accent: Range of voice quality variation, the periphery, and focusing. In J. Morley (Ed.), Pronunciation pedagogy and theory: New views, new directions (pp. 49-63). Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
(1994). Analysis of pitch dependence of pharyngeal, faucal, and larynx-height voice quality settings (with L.M. Heap, R.C. Snell & B.C. Dickson). ICSLP 94 (pp. 1475-1478). Yokohama: Acoustical Society of Japan.
(1994). Real-time processing of electroglottographic waveforms for the evaluation of phonation types (with B.C. Dickson & R.C. Snell). ICSLP 94 (pp. 647-650). Yokohama: Acoustical Society of Japan.
(1994). Voice quality. In R.E. Asher & J.M.Y. Simpson (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of language and linguistics (pp. 4950-4953). Oxford: Pergamon Press.