Ian Maddieson

Ian Maddieson
Born	(1942-09-01)1 September 1942 Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Died	2 February 2025(2025-02-02) (aged 82)
Nationality	British
Education	Oxford University (BA), University of London (MA) University of California, Los Angeles (PhD)
Known for	Phonetics, Phonological Typology
Scientific career
Fields	Phonetics, Phonology, Linguistic typology
Institutions	University of California at Berkeley, University of New Mexico, Santa Fe Institute
Website	Official website

Ian Maddieson (1 September 1942 – 2 February 2025) was a British-American linguist and professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of New Mexico in the United States. He served as Vice-President of the International Phonetic Association, and Secretary of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. Maddieson was born in Watford, England on 1 September 1942. He is best known for his work in phonetics, and phonological typology. He spent most of his academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, where he often collaborated with Peter Ladefoged in describing the patterns of speech sounds in the world's spoken languages. Maddieson died on 2 February 2025, at the age of 82.

Books

• Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19815-6.
  • Describes known contrasting phonetic categories and ways in which phonemic sounds differ across human language, based on data from approximately 400 languages.
• Maddieson, Ian (1984). Patterns of Sounds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-26536-3. Republished 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-11326-7.
  • Analyzes the frequencies and distributions of the phonemic sounds among languages. The results are based on UPSID (the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database).

External links

• Ian Maddieson's Homepage at the University of Berkeley