Peter Ladefoged

13.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
139 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Peter Ladefoged is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Ladefoged has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 55 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 39 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Peter Ladefoged's work include Phonetics and Phonology Research (93 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (38 papers) and Speech Recognition and Synthesis (32 papers). Peter Ladefoged is often cited by papers focused on Phonetics and Phonology Research (93 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (38 papers) and Speech Recognition and Synthesis (32 papers). Peter Ladefoged collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Peter Ladefoged's co-authors include Taehong Cho, D. Ε. Broadbent, Matthew Gordon, Morris Halle, Victoria A. Fromkin, Sun‐Ah Jun, Ian Maddieson, Donald E. Broadbent, Richard A. Harshman and Louis Goldstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

Peter Ladefoged

129 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

Information Conveyed by Vowels 1957 2026 1980 2003 1957 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Information Conveyed by Vowels
    1957 504 citations Peter Ladefoged et al. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Ladefoged United States 43 5.5k 3.1k 3.0k 1.5k 1.2k 139 7.3k
Kenneth N. Stevens United States 38 5.1k 0.9× 2.7k 0.9× 1.6k 0.5× 579 0.4× 1.9k 1.5× 122 7.3k
Dennis H. Klatt United States 27 4.9k 0.9× 3.6k 1.2× 1.4k 0.5× 610 0.4× 2.0k 1.6× 74 7.5k
Björn Lindblom Sweden 31 4.1k 0.7× 1.9k 0.6× 1.5k 0.5× 666 0.5× 1.0k 0.8× 106 5.9k
John J. Ohala United States 30 3.3k 0.6× 1.5k 0.5× 1.7k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 456 0.4× 104 4.1k
Paul Boersma Netherlands 25 6.3k 1.1× 3.4k 1.1× 2.5k 0.8× 1.8k 1.3× 1.8k 1.4× 98 10.5k
Carol A. Fowler United States 50 5.4k 1.0× 2.0k 0.6× 2.0k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 738 0.6× 147 8.1k
Mary E. Beckman United States 32 5.1k 0.9× 2.7k 0.9× 2.5k 0.8× 1.8k 1.2× 532 0.4× 120 6.5k
Ilse Lehiste United States 23 2.7k 0.5× 1.3k 0.4× 1.2k 0.4× 684 0.5× 591 0.5× 109 3.9k
Ann R. Bradlow United States 42 5.5k 1.0× 1.7k 0.6× 2.1k 0.7× 914 0.6× 1.8k 1.5× 143 8.0k
James Emil Flege United States 60 10.1k 1.8× 4.3k 1.4× 6.4k 2.2× 2.8k 1.9× 1.2k 1.0× 142 11.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Ladefoged

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ladefoged, Peter. (2001). Vowels and consonants : an introduction to the sounds of languages. Blackwell eBooks. 292 indexed citations
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Gordon, Matthew, Pamela Munro, & Peter Ladefoged. (2000). Some phonetic structures of Chickasaw. Anthropological linguistics. 42(3). 366–400. 22 indexed citations
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Wright, Richard & Peter Ladefoged. (1997). A Phonetic Study of Tsou. Americanae (AECID Library). 987–1028. 5 indexed citations
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Ladefoged, Peter & Daniel L. Everett. (1996). The Status of Phonetic Rarities. Language. 72(4). 794–800. 25 indexed citations
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Silverman, Daniel, et al.. (1995). Phonetic structures in Jalapa Mazatec. Anthropological linguistics. 37(1). 70–88. 48 indexed citations
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Ladefoged, Peter & A. Traill. (1994). Clicks and their accompaniments. Journal of Phonetics. 22(1). 33–64. 42 indexed citations
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Ladefoged, Peter. (1990). The Revised International Phonetic Alphabet. Language. 66(3). 550–552. 18 indexed citations
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Ladefoged, Peter. (1989). A note on ‘‘Information conveyed by vowels’’. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 85(5). 2223–2224. 147 indexed citations
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Ladefoged, Peter & Morris Halle. (1988). Some Major Features of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Language. 64(3). 577–582. 23 indexed citations
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Ladefoged, Peter, Ian Maddieson, Michel T. T. Jackson, & Marie K. Huffman. (1987). Characteristics of the voice source. 2226–2229. 1 indexed citations
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Ladefoged, Peter. (1986). The phonetic basis for computer speech processing. 3–27. 3 indexed citations
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Ladefoged, Peter & Victoria A. Fromkin. (1985). Phonetic linguistics : essays in honor of Peter Ladefoged. Academic Press eBooks. 238 indexed citations
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Ladefoged, Peter & A. Traill. (1984). Linguistic Phonetic Descriptions of Clicks. Language. 60(1). 1–20. 27 indexed citations
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Ladefoged, Peter. (1980). What are linguistic sounds made of?. Language. 56(3). 485–502. 73 indexed citations
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Ladefoged, Peter. (1979). Fundamental problems in phonetics . By J. C. Catford. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977. Pp. 278.. Language. 55(4). 904–907. 476 indexed citations
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Ladefoged, Peter. (1978). Speech physiology and acoustic phonetics . By Philip Lieberman. New York: Macmillan, 1977. Pp. xiv, 206.. Language. 54(4). 920–922. 43 indexed citations
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