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Graph: S0025100320000316 fig1a.png John J. Ohala, past president of the International Phonetic Association, died in Berkeley, California, on 22 August 2020. He was married to Manjari (Agrawal) Ohala (former Professor and Chair of Linguistics at San Jose State University) for 51 years, and was a professor at UC Berkeley for one year less than that. One of the most fascinating and intellectually influential figures in 20th century linguistics, Ohala insisted that the sound systems of language, their phonologies, are constrained by the physiology of speech production and speech perception (Ohala 1974). This scientific approach to sound change as an explanation of language sound patterns was fleshed out in a series of influential papers (Ohala 1987, 1993; Ohala & Feder 1994; Ohala & Ohala 1995). [Extracted from the article] |
