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Prof. Ian Maddieson UCLA Linguistics Dept. 3125 Campbell Hall Los Angeles CA 90095-1543 ian@humnet.ucla.edu

Research Interests

My research interests include, broadly, phonetic universals and development of a universal framework for the description of the sounds of the world's languages, and an understanding of why some sounds are common and others rare. I am currently undertaking "Phonetic studies of endangered languages" (Title of a large NSF grant to myself and Peter Ladefoged).

Recent Publications

Sounds of the World's Languages (1995): with Peter Ladefoged, to appear shortly from Blackwells, Oxford.

Patterns of Sounds (1984). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Now out of print: work starting on a second edition.

Teaching

Adjunct faculty do not "usually" teach, but I do teach graduate research seminars, and courses on phonetics, phonology or historical linguistics from time to time.

Other Activities

Standing Committe for World Congresses of African Linguistics, Founding president

26th Annual Congress of African Linguistics (March 1995, hosted by UCLA), Co-organizer, with Tom Hinnebusch. Currently editing the proceedings.

Biographical Information

Degree: Ph.D., Linguistics. UCLA 1977.

Previous Academic Appointments:

University of Ibadan (Nigeria)

Indiana University,

UC Berkeley

Universite de Lyon-2 (Fall 1995)

Fieldwork Locations:

• Nigeria
• Ghana
• Tanzania
• Kenya
• Zimbabwe
• South Africa
• Vanuatu
• Papua New Guinea
• Australia
• Pohnpei (Micronesia)
• New Caledonia
• Projected trips to Dagestan and Kamchatka (Russia), Yap, Chile, Argentina, British Columbia.

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