Phonologists Alan Prince is a professor of linguistics at Rutgers University. Prince, along with Paul Smolensky, developed Optimality Theory, currently the most influential theory about phonology. He received his Ph.D. from MIT. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Prince"
James Elphinston ( December 6, 1721 – October 8, 1809) was a well noted 18th Century Scottish educator, orthographer, phonologist and linguistics expert. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Elphinston"
Jan Niecislaw Baudouin de Courtenay ( March 13, 1845 - November 3, 1929) was a Polish linguist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations. For most of his life he worked at Imperial Russian universities: Kazan (1974-1883), Yuryev (1883-1893), Kraków (1893-1899) and St. Petersburg (1900-1918)), where he was known as Иван Александрович Бодуэн де Куртенэ (Ivan Aleksandrovich Boduen de Kurtene). In 1919-1929 he was a professor at the re-established Warsaw University in a once again independent Poland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay"
John McCarthy (born 1953 in Medford, Massachusetts) is a linguist and professor of phonology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was educated at Harvard University and MIT and was responsible, along with Alan Prince, for extending Optimality Theory to morphology. ...more on Wikipedia about "John McCarthy (linguist)"
Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (born Croydon 1909, died 1991) was a linguist and a translator who specialized in the Brythonic languages. He demonstrated how the text of the Ulster Cycle of tales, written down around 1100, preserves an oral tradition of some six centuries earlier and reflects Celtic Irish society of the third and fourth century AD. His Celtic Miscellany is a popular standard. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kenneth H. Jackson"
Morris Halle, né Pinkowitz, is an American linguist. He was born in Liepaja, Latvia, in 1923, and moved with his family to Riga in 1929. They arrived in the United States in 1940. ...more on Wikipedia about "Morris Halle"
Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (Cyrillic ; Moscow, April 15, 1890 - Vienna, June 25, 1938) was a Russian linguist whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics. He is widely considered to be the founder of morphophonology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nikolai Trubetzkoy"
(Patricia Alice Shaw) Theoretical Issues in Dakota Phonology and Morphology. She taught at York University from 1976 until 1979 before taking her current position at the University of British Columbia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Patricia Alice Shaw"
Professor Pavle Ivić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Ивић) ( December 1, 1924 - September 19, 1999) was a leading South Slavic and general dialectologist and phonologist. Both his field work and his synthesizing studies were extensive and authoritative. A few of his best-known publications are: ...more on Wikipedia about "Pavle Ivić"
Yuen Ren Chao ( ; WG: Chao Yüan-jen; Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Jaw Yuanrenn) ( November 3, 1892 - February 25, 1982) was a Chinese linguist and amateur composer who shaped Gwoyeu Romatzyh and the scientific studies, especially the phonology, of the Chinese language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Y. R. Chao"
Zhang Binglin (章炳麟 Pinyin: Zhāng Bǐnglín) ( December 25 1868 - June 14 1936) was a Chinese linguist, specializing in phonology and classics, who laid out the basis for Zhuyin. Because of his outspoken writing, he was jailed for three years by the Qing Empire and for another three years by Yuan Shikai. ...more on Wikipedia about "Zhang Binglin"
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