# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-ladefoged
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:33:19.719Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-ladefoged"
name: "Peter Ladefoged"
slug: "peter-ladefoged"
description: "Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was a British linguist and phonetician.\nHe was Professor of Phonetics at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he taught from 1962 to 1991. His book A Course in Phonetics is a common introductory text in phonetics, and The Sounds of the World's Languages is widely regarded as a standard phonetics reference. Ladefoged also wrote several books on the phonetics of African languages. Prior to UCLA, he was a lecturer at the universities of University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the University of Ibadan in Nigeria (1959–60)."
tagline: "British phonetician (1925–2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Ladefoged_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-09-17"
deathDate: "2006-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump