John Ohala
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Who is John Ohala?
John J. Ohala is a Professor Emeritus in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in phonetics and phonology.
He received his PhD in Linguistics in 1969 from University of California, Los Angeles; his graduate advisor was Peter Ladefoged. He is best known for his insistence that many aspects of languages' phonologies derive from physical and physiological constraints which are independent of language and thus have no place in the "grammar" of a language, i.e., what speakers have to learn inductively from exposure to the speech community into which they are born.
He has also proposed that ethological principles determine certain aspects of languages' prosodic patterns, sound symbolism, and facial expressions involving the lips.
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- University of California, Los Angeles
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
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on July 23, 2013
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