John H. Esling comes to the 10th Annual UTA Student Conference in
Linguistics from the University of Victoria where he is Professor of
Linguistics. Dr. Esling also has the distinction of being the Secretary of
the International
Phonetic Association. His
credentials include 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
arriving at the University of Victoria in 1981. 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, having also participated in the development of several
phonetics teaching and speech analysis software programs.
Several
of Dr. Esling’s most recent works include:
Crosslinguistic aspects of
voice quality. 2000. In R.D. Kent & M.J. Ball (Eds.), Voice quality
measurement (pp. 25-35). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.
The
IPA categories "pharyngeal" and "epiglottal":
Laryngoscopic observations of pharyngeal articulations and larynx height.
1999. Language & Speech,
42, 349-372.
Handbook
of the International Phonetic Association: A guide to the use of the
International Phonetic Alphabet. 1999. (Edited with F.J. Nolan). Cambridge
University Press.
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). 1998. Proceedings
of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, vol. 7
(pp. 3091-3094). Sydney: ASSTA.
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