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Ian Wilson | |
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| Born | 1966 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Professor |
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| Education | PhD (Linguistics) |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia |
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| Institutions | University of Aizu |
| Main interests | Articulatory phonetics Language education Articulatory setting |
Ian Wilson (born in 1966) is a Canadian linguist. [1]
Wilson has a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo,he has an M.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language from the University of Birmingham and a PhD in Linguistics (phonetics) from the University of British Columbia.
He is professor at the University of Aizu in Aizuwakamatsu city,Fukushima prefecture,Japan. His field of research is phonetics,especially articulatory phonetics and articulatory setting. He is one of the first teacher/researchers to use ultrasound in a large-scale ESL classroom as a method of providing direct visual biofeedback to pronunciation learners on the movements of the tongue during speech. [1]
Ian Wilson is a co-author of Articulatory Phonetics, [2] which introduces students to the field of Articulatory Phonetics and Speech Science.
Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow. Therefore,approximants fall between fricatives,which do produce a turbulent airstream,and vowels,which produce no turbulence. This class is composed of sounds like and semivowels like and,as well as lateral approximants like.
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or,in the case of sign languages,the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. The field of phonetics is traditionally divided into three sub-disciplines on questions involved such as how humans plan and execute movements to produce speech,how various movements affect the properties of the resulting sound or how humans convert sound waves to linguistic information. Traditionally,the minimal linguistic unit of phonetics is the phone—a speech sound in a language which differs from the phonological unit of phoneme;the phoneme is an abstract categorization of phones and it is also defined as the smallest unit that discerns meaning between sounds in any given language.
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phonemes or,for sign languages,their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a particular language variety. At one time,the study of phonology related only to the study of the systems of phonemes in spoken languages,but now it may relate to any linguistic analysis either:
Acoustic phonetics is a subfield of phonetics,which deals with acoustic aspects of speech sounds. Acoustic phonetics investigates time domain features such as the mean squared amplitude of a waveform,its duration,its fundamental frequency,or frequency domain features such as the frequency spectrum,or even combined spectrotemporal features and the relationship of these properties to other branches of phonetics,and to abstract linguistic concepts such as phonemes,phrases,or utterances.
Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds. Speech sounds can be described as either voiceless or voiced.
An apical consonant is a phone produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue (apex) in conjunction with upper articulators from lips to postalveolar,and possibly prepalatal. It contrasts with laminal consonants,which are produced by creating an obstruction with the blade of the tongue,just behind the tip. Sometimes apical is used exclusively for an articulation that involves only the tip of the tongue and apicolaminal for an articulation that involves both the tip and the blade of the tongue. However,the distinction is not always made and the latter one may be called simply apical,especially when describing an apical dental articulation. As there is some laminal contact in the alveolar region,the apicolaminal dental consonants are also labelled as denti-alveolar.
An obstruent is a speech sound such as,,or that is formed by obstructing airflow. Obstruents contrast with sonorants,which have no such obstruction and so resonate. All obstruents are consonants,but sonorants include vowels as well as consonants.
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was a British linguist and phonetician. He was Professor of Phonetics at University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA),where he taught from 1962 to 1991. His book A Course in Phonetics is a common introductory text in phonetics,and The Sounds of the World's Languages is widely regarded as a standard phonetics reference. Ladefoged also wrote several books on the phonetics of African languages. Prior to UCLA,he was a lecturer at the universities of Edinburgh,Scotland and Ibadan,Nigeria (1959–60).
In linguistics,a segment is "any discrete unit that can be identified,either physically or auditorily,in the stream of speech". The term is most used in phonetics and phonology to refer to the smallest elements in a language,and this usage can be synonymous with the term phone.
The Sounds of the World's Languages,sometimes abbreviated SOWL,is a 1996 book by Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson which documents a global survey of the sound patterns of natural languages. Drawing from the authors' own fieldwork and experiments as well as existing literature,it provides an articulatory and acoustic description of vowels and consonants from more than 300 languages. It is a prominent reference work in the field of phonetics.
Carol Ann Fowler is an American experimental psychologist. She was president and director of research at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven,Connecticut from 1992 to 2008. She is also a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut and adjunct professor of linguistics and psychology at Yale University. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1971,her M.A University of Connecticut in 1973 and her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Connecticut in 1977.
Catherine Phebe Browman was an American linguist and speech scientist. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1978. Browman was a research scientist at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey (1967–1972). While at Bell Laboratories,she was known for her work on speech synthesis using demisyllables. She later worked as researcher at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven,Connecticut (1982–1998). She was best known for developing,with Louis Goldstein,of the theory of articulatory phonology,a gesture-based approach to phonological and phonetic structure. The theoretical approach is incorporated in a computational model that generates speech from a gesturally-specified lexicon. Browman was made an honorary member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.
In human speech,egressive sounds are sounds in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose. The three types of egressive sounds are pulmonic egressive,glottalic egressive,and lingual (velaric) egressive. The opposite of an egressive sound is an ingressive sound,in which the airstream flows inward through the mouth or nose.
Georg Heike was a German phonetician and linguist.
Bernd J. Kröger is a German phonetician and professor at RWTH Aachen University. He is known for his contributions in the field of neurocomputational speech processing,in particular the ACT model.
Janet Fletcher is an Australian linguist. She completed her BA at the University of Queensland in 1981 and then moved to the United Kingdom and received her PhD from the University of Reading in 1989.
John Henry Esling,is a Canadian linguist specializing in phonetics. He is a Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Victoria,where he taught from 1981 to 2014. Esling was president of the International Phonetic Association from 2011 to 2015 and a co-editor of the 1999 Handbook of the International Phonetic Association.
John David Michael Henry Laver,was a British phonetician. He was Deputy Principal &Deputy Vice Patron as well as Emeritus professor of speech sciences at Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University,and served as president of the International Phonetic Association from 1991 to 1995.
Elizabeth Cook Zsiga is an American linguist whose work focuses on phonology and phonetics. She is a Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University.
Bryan Gick is an American-Canadian linguist and researcher in the fields of linguistics,articulatory phonetics,and motor control. Since 1999,he has been a Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Linguistics. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Guggenheim Scholar,and is a senior researcher of Haskins laboratories at Yale University.
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