Peter Ladefoged (fwd)

[Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong]

FYI

Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:53:26 -1000
From: Victoria B. Anderson <vanderso at hawaii.edu>

Dear Colleagues,
With a very heavy heart I must inform you of the passing of Peter
Ladefoged. So many of us have known him; if not personally, then
through his work. I know the  linguistic community will feel this
loss acutely, and that our thoughts will be of him and his family in
the days to come.

Below is part of a message from Patricia Keating, Director of the
UCLA Phonetics Lab:


>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:00:08 -0800
>From: "Keating, Patricia"
>
>Dear current and former members of the department,
>
>We have just learned that our dear friend and colleague, Peter
>Ladefoged, has died.  Apparently he died from natural causes in
>London while traveling to or from India for fieldwork.  This is all
>we know at this point.  Obviously we are with [his family] in our
>hearts.
>
>...Peter turned 80 in September, which we celebrated at the October
>Acoustical Society meeting.  The website from that event is a
>starting point for a tribute to him:
><http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/plbday/top_page.html>http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/plbday/top_page.html
>- scroll down to my "chair's introduction" for some biographical
>highlights; and especially nice is Jenny's slideshow:
><http://www.jladefoged.com/Presentation4.ppt.htm>http://www.jladefoged.com/Presentation4.ppt.htm.
>
>
>


-- 
Victoria Anderson
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
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