Peter Ladefoged - Academic Timeline

Academic Timeline

• 1953–5: Assistant Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Edinburgh
• 1955–59: Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Edinburgh
• 1959–60: Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
• 1960–61: Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Edinburgh
• 1961–62: Field fellow, Linguistic Survey of West Africa, Nigeria
• Summer 1960: University of Michigan
• Summer 1961: Royal Institute of Technology, (Stockholm, Sweden)
• 1962–63: Assistant Professor of Phonetics, Department of English, UCLA
• 1962: Established, and directed until 1991, the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory
• 1963–65: Associate Professor of Phonetics, Department of Linguistics, UCLA
• 1965–91: Professor of Phonetics, Department of Linguistics, UCLA
• 1977–80: Chair, Department of Linguistics, UCLA
• 1991: “retired” to become UCLA Research Linguist, Distinguished Professor of Phonetics Emeritus
• 2005: Leverhulme Professor, University of Edinburgh
• 2005–06: Adjunct professor at the University of Southern California (USC)