John Laver
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| Died | 6 May 2020 (aged 82) |
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John David Michael Henry Laver,
Life and career
Laver was born in
From 1963 to 1966, Laver was a lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.[2] Formally, his post at Ibadan lasted for three years, but in the second year he was substituted by John Kelly while Laver returned to Edinburgh in exchange.[3] In 1966, he was appointed a lecturer at Edinburgh,[2] where he received a PhD in 1975, presenting the thesis "Individual features in voice quality" [4] supervised by Abercrombie.[5] In 1985, he was appointed Professor of Phonetics at Edinburgh, where he later received a Doctor of Letters.[6] He was president of the International Phonetic Association from 1991 to 1995.[2]
He was elected a
In 2013, Trinity College Dublin awarded him an honorary doctorate.[8]
With Ronald E. Asher, Laver served as general editor of The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Speech and Language for Wiley-Blackwell, which involved nearly 40 contributors and was completed in 2013 after about 25 years of preparation. During a period of Laver's illness, however, Wiley-Blackwell withdrew from the contract, reverting copyright to the contributors.[9][10]
He died in Scotland on 6 May 2020 after a long illness.[11]
Personal life
Laver married his colleague Sandy Hutcheson in 1974.[3]
Selected publications
- Laver, John (1965). "Variability in Vowel Perception". S2CID 141660044.
- Laver, John (1968). "Voice Quality and Indexical Information". PMID 5665923.
- Laver, John; Hutcheson, Sandy, eds. (1972). Communication in Face-to-Face Interaction: Selected Readings. Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-080664-4.
- Jones, William E.; Laver, John, eds. (1973). Phonetics in Linguistics: A Book of Readings. London: Longman. ISBN 0-582-52451-2.
- Laver, John; ISBN 0-521-22321-0.
- Laver, John (1980). The Phonetic Description of Voice Quality. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23176-0.
- Laver, John (1981). "The Analysis of Voice Quality: from the Classical Period to the Twentieth Century". In ISBN 0-85224-374-X.
- Myers, Terry; Laver, John; Anderson, John, eds. (1981). The Cognitive Representation of Speech. North-Holland. ISBN 0-444-86162-9.
- Laver, John, ed. (1991). The Gift of Speech: Papers in the Analysis of Speech and Voice. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-0313-1.
- Laver, John (1992). "Voice quality". In ISBN 0-19-505196-3.
- Laver, John (1994). Principles of Phonetics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-45655-X.
- Laver, John (1994). "Speech". In Asher, R. E.; Simpson, J. M. Y. (eds.). ISBN 0-08-035943-4.
- Hardcastle, William J.; Laver, John, eds. (1997). The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-18848-7.
- Laver, John (2000). "Phonetic evaluation of voice quality". In Kent, Raymond D.; ISBN 1-56593-991-3.
- Laver, John (2001). "Linguistic Phonetics". In ISBN 0-631-20497-0.
References
- ^ "Professor John Laver". Queen Margaret University. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
- ^ a b c d "RSE Awards Bicentenary Medals for Distinguished Service" (Press release). Royal Society of Edinburgh. 2 July 2004.
- ^ ISBN 0-631-23476-4.
- ^ Laver, J. D. M. H. (1987). "Individual features in voice quality".
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- ^ ISBN 0-8058-4528-3.
- ^ "No. 55354". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1998. pp. 7โ8.
- ^ "Registrar : Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
- ^ Laver, John; Mason, Ian (2018). A Dictionary of Translation and Interpreting.
- ^ "The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences, 2nd Edition". Wiley. February 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ Ashby, Michael; Docherty, Gerard (12 May 2020). "Professor John Laver (1938โ2020)". International Phonetic Association. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
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