UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES (UCLA)

Department of Linguistics
Los Angeles, California


   WWP - Working Papers in Phonetics
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HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION

The Department of Linguistics dates its beginnings to an inter-
departmental Master of Arts program in 1960. The program prospered,
offering a doctoral program in 1962. A full bachelor's program in
1965 was further augmented in 1966 with the addition of Peter
Ladefoged and his Phonetics Laboratory, and was granted Department
status.

The Department is known for its experimental study of linguistic
phonetics and its theoretical linguistics, with particular know-
ledge of African and American Indian languages.

("A Brief History (1966-2000)", UCLA Dept. of Linguistics web
 pages.)


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PROJECT: SPEECH ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS  (19   - 19   )


1964 Anthony, J., "True model of the vocal tract", J. Acoust.
     Soc. Amer., 36, 1037 (A) (1964).  (I)


1966 MacKinney, N.P., M.A.A. Tatham, and P. Ladefoged, "Terminal
     analog speech synthesizer," Univ. of Cal., WPP No. 4, 10-18,
     1966.

     Tape ?


Parametric vs non-parametric synthesis


1964 Ladefoged, P., "Some possibilities in speech synthesis",
     Language and Speech, 7, 205-214 (1964).  (I)


1966 Kim, C.-W., "The linguistic specification of speech", WPP 5
     (1966).  (I)


1967 Ladefoged, P., "Linguistic phonetics", WPP 6 (1967).  (I)


1968 Vanderslice, R., "Synthetic elocution", WPP 8, 1968.  (I)


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PROJECT: ARTICULATORY AND NEUROMUSCULAR SYNTHESIS (19   - 19   )


Hardware vocal tract analog synthesizer controlled from a LINC-8
digital computer. Parameters are vocal tract configuration or
neuromuscular commands.

     Movie: We owe you a yoyo, P. Crady, 16mm
        (********** is a copy available? ********)


1968 Hiki, S., R. Ratcliffe, S. Hubler, and P. Metevelis, "Notes
     on LASS circuitry", WPP 10, 12-41 (1968).  (I)


1969 Hiki, S. and R. Harshman, "Speech synthesis by rules with
     physiological parameters", J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 46, 111
     (A) (1969).   (I)


1970 Hiki, S., "Control rule of the tongue movement for dynamic
     analog speech synthesis", J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 47, 85 (A)
     (1970).  (I)

    (See SSSHP JAPAN Tohoku University for subsequent publications
     and tape recordings.)  


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PROJECT:


1970 Fromkin, V.A., and D. L. Rice, "An interactive phonological
     rule testing system", WPP 14, 8 (1970).  (I)


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BIOGRAPHIES


SHIZUO HIKI  (See SSSHP JAPAN Tohoku University)

1968-70 Exchange visitor, Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Califor-
     nia at Los Angeles (UCLA), and Speech Communications Research 
     Laboratory, Santa Barbara, California.


PETER LADEFOGED

1943 Caius College, Cambridge University
1944-47 Royal Sussex Regiment
1951 M.A., University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1953 Lecturer in Phonetics, Univ. of Edinburgh
1959 Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1959 Lecturer in Phonetics, Univ. of Ibadan, Nigeria
1960 Lecturer in Phonetics, Univ. of Edinburgh;
1961 Field Fellow, West African Languages Survey
1962 Asst. Professor Phonetics, Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA
1963 Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA
1965-91 Professor of Phonetics, Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA
1977-80 Chair, Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA
1991- UCLA Research Linguist/Professor of Phonetics Emeritus


JAMES ANTHONY (see SSSHP UK Univ. of Edinburgh file)


MICHEL JACKSON

1990 Post. Doc., MIT, articulatory modeling


D. LLOYD RICE  (see SSSHP USA Computalker Consultants)


C.-W. KIM

    Dept. of Linguistics, Indiana University


VICTORIA A. FROMKIN

1944 B.S., economics, Univ. of California, Berkeley
1963 M.A., linguistics, UCLA
1965 Ph.D., linguistics, UCLA
1965 Faculty, Dept. of Linguistics, UCLA
1980-89 Vice Chancellor, Graduate Programs
1999 Deceased


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