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Re: Ladefoged

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 22, 2000, 20:13
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> taliesin the storyteller wrote: > > > (Peter Ladefoged for the phonetic side of things, > > of course). > > His "Outline of Phonetics" has been described (on sci.lang, > I think) as "answering every possible question about phonetics, > except how to pronounce 'Ladefoged'". > > Eventually the answer was tracked down: although it's a > Danish name, he pronounces it in his "debased RP" (self-description) > as ['l&d@fowg@d]. >
He has published the pronounciation of his name on his homepage: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/people/ladefoge/ladefoge.htm, just like me... He's writing a cool book with a CD to go with it, too! Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org