Joseph Desmond O'Connor

{{short description|British linguist (1919–1998)}}

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| birth_date = 10 December 1919

| birth_place = Harrogate

| death_date = 15 July 1998 (aged 78)

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| fields = Phonetics

| workplaces = University College London

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• Yadollah Samareh
• John C. Wells
• James Hurford

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Joseph Desmond O'Connor (10 December 1919 – 15 July 1998) was a British linguist and Professor of Phonetics at University College London.{{cite journal |last1=Wells |first1=John |title=O'Connor, J. D. |journal=The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics |date=2012 |doi=10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0877 |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |language=en|isbn=9781405194730 }}

A festschrift in his honour edited by Jack Windsor Lewis, was published by Routledge in 1995.Windsor Lewis, J. (Ed.). (1995). Studies in general and English phonetics: Essays in honour of Professor J. D. O’Connor. London, England: Routledge.