John Ohala, professor of linguistics from University of California, Berkeley, and director of the phonetics lab, visits SHNU on April 15th, and delivered his speech with the title of Sound change and its relevance to understanding the mechanisms of speech communication. Li Hexing, vice SHNU president, conferred him the certificate of consultant professor, and offered the gift of commemorative Xuesihu Lake Overseas Scholar’s Forum.
Once Chairman of International Phonetics Association, Ohala has made epoch-making contributions to experimental phonetics, cognitive linguistics and historical linguistics. Worth mentioning, his greatest academic achievements are generally regarded as his creative theories of phonetic modifications, based on pronunciation and cognition, and is thus remarked as one of the most outstanding phoneticians of the century. (By Rebecca) |
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