John Esling
{{Short description|Canadian linguist}}
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John Henry Esling, {{post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC}} (born 5 June 1949) is a Canadian linguist specializing in phonetics. He is a Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Victoria, where he taught from 1981 to 2014. Esling was president of the International Phonetic Association from 2011 to 2015 and a co-editor of the 1999 Handbook of the International Phonetic Association.
His research primarily concerns the categorization, measurement and transcription of voice quality and vocal register, and the production and perception of laryngeal sounds.{{cite book|editor1-last=Hill|editor1-first=Carrie|editor2-last=Huijsmans|editor2-first=Marianne|editor3-last=Onosson|editor3-first=Sky|year=2014|title=Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle of the University of Victoria: Vol. 24|publisher=Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria|url=https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/WPLC/issue/view/750}}{{cite web|url=https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/linguistics/people/faculty/other/emeritus/eslingjohn.php|title=Dr. John Esling|publisher=University of Victoria|access-date=2 February 2018}}
Biography
Esling received a BA in History and Languages from Northwestern University in 1971, an MA in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1972, and a PhD in Phonetics from the University of Edinburgh in 1978.{{cite web|url=https://www.seeingspeech.ac.uk/the-phoneticians/|title=The Phoneticians|work=Seeing Speech|publisher=University of Glasgow|date=2018|access-date=10 January 2019}} His teachers at Michigan included J. C. Catford and Kenneth Pike, and at Edinburgh David Abercrombie and John Laver.
After teaching at the University of Leeds, Esling began working at the University of Victoria in 1981. He chaired its Linguistic Department between 2008 and 2013. He retired in 2014 with the title of a Professor Emeritus of Linguistics.
Esling was president of the International Phonetic Association from 2011 to 2015. He served as its Secretary from 1995 to 2003, and edited the Journal of the International Phonetic Association from 2003 to 2011. He co-edited the 1999 Handbook of the International Phonetic Association with Francis Nolan, and the 2011 18th edition of the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary with Peter Roach and Jane Setter.
In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Selected publications
- {{cite thesis|last=Esling|first=John H.|year=1978|title=Voice Quality in Edinburgh: A Sociolinguistic and Phonetic Study|publisher=University of Edinburgh|url=https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/17183}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Esling|first1=John H.|last2=Wong|first2=Rita F.|year=1983|title=Voice Quality Settings and the Teaching of Pronunciation|journal=TESOL Quarterly|volume=17|issue=1|pages=89–95|jstor=3586426}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Esling|first1=John|last2=Gaylord|first2=Harry|year=1993|title=Computer Codes for Phonetic Symbols|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association|volume=23|issue=2|pages=83–97|doi=10.1017/S0025100300004898}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Ball|first1=Martin J.|last2=Esling|first2=John|last3=Dickson|first3=Craig|year=1995|title=The VoQS System for the Transcription of Voice Quality|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association|volume=25|issue=2|pages=71–80|doi=10.1017/S0025100300005181}}
- {{cite journal|last=Esling|first=John H.|year=1996|title=Pharyngeal consonants and the aryepiglottic sphincter|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association|volume=26|issue=2|pages=65–88|doi=10.1017/S0025100300006125}}
- {{cite book|last=Esling|first=John H.|year=1998|chapter=Everyone Has an Accent Except Me|editor1-last=Bauer|editor1-first=Laurie|editor2-last=Trudgill|editor2-first=Peter|editor2-link=Peter Trudgill|title=Language Myths|publisher=Penguin Books|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780140260236/page/169 169–175]|isbn=0-14026023-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780140260236/page/169}}
- {{cite journal|last=Esling|first=John H.|year=1999|title=The IPA Categories 'Pharyngeal' and 'Epiglottal': Laryngoscopic Observations of Pharyngeal Articulations and Larynx Height|journal=Language and Speech|volume=42|issue=4|pages=349–372|doi=10.1177/00238309990420040101}}
- {{cite book|author=International Phonetic Association|author-link=International Phonetic Association|year=1999|editor1-last=Nolan|editor1-first=Francis|editor1-link=Francis Nolan|editor2-last=Esling|editor2-first=John H.|title=Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-65236-0}}
- {{cite journal|last=Esling|first=John H.|year=2005|title=There Are No Back Vowels: The Larygeal Articulator Model|journal=Canadian Journal of Linguistics|volume=50|issue=1–4|pages=13–44|doi=10.1017/S0008413100003650}}
- {{cite book|last1=Esling|first1=John H.|last2=Harris|first2=Jimmy G.|year=2005|chapter=States of the Glottis: An Articulatory Phonetic Model Based on Laryngoscopic Observations|editor1-last=Hardcastle|editor1-first=W. J.|editor2-last=Mackenzie Beck|editor2-first=J.|title=A Figure of Speech: A Festschrift for John Laver|publisher=Lawrence Erlbaum Associates|pages=347–383|isbn=0-80584528-3}}
- {{cite book|last=Esling|first=John H.|year=2010|chapter=Phonetic Notation|editor1-last=Hardcastle|editor1-first=William J.|editor2-last=Laver|editor2-first=John|editor3-last=Gibbon|editor3-first=Fiona E.|title=The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences|edition=2nd|pages=678–702|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|doi=10.1002/9781444317251.ch18|isbn=978-1-4051-4590-9}}
- {{cite web|last=Esling|first=John H.|year=2011|url=http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0022.xml|title=IPA|work=Oxford Bibliographies|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/OBO/9780199772810-0022}}
- {{cite book|last=Jones|first=Daniel|year=2011|author-link=Daniel Jones (phonetician)|editor-last1=Roach|editor-first1=Peter|editor-link1=Peter Roach (phonetician)|editor-last2=Setter|editor-first2=Jane|editor-link2=Jane Setter|editor-last3=Esling|editor-first3=John|title=Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary|edition=18th|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-052-115255-6}}
- {{cite book|last=Esling|first=John H.|year=2012|chapter=Voice Quality|editor-link1=Carol Chapelle|editor-last=Chapelle|editor-first=Carol A.|title=The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|doi=10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal1271}}
- {{cite book|last=Esling|first=John H.|year=2013|chapter=Voice and Phonation|editor1-last=Jones|editor1-first=Mark J.|editor2-last=Knight|editor2-first=Rachael-Anne|title=The Bloomsbury Companion to Phonetics|publisher=Bloomsbury|pages=110–125|isbn=978-1-4411-4606-9}}
- {{cite book|last1=Esling|first=John H.|last2=Moisik|first2=Scott R.|last3=Benner|first3=Allison|last4=Crevier-Buchman|first4=Lise|year=2019|title=Voice Quality: The Laryngeal Articulator Model|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-49842-5}}
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