John Laver

John Laver
Born
John David Michael Henry Laver

(1938-01-20)20 January 1938
Died6 May 2020(2020-05-06) (aged 82)
NationalityBritish
OccupationPhonetician
Notable work
  • The Phonetic Description of Voice Quality (1980)
  • Principles of Phonetics (1994)

John David Michael Henry Laver, CBE, FBA, FRSE (20 January 1938 – 6 May 2020) was a British phonetician. He was Deputy Principal & Deputy Vice Patron as well as Emeritus professor of speech sciences at Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University, and served as president of the International Phonetic Association from 1991 to 1995.[1]

  1. ^ "Professor John Laver". Queen Margaret University. Retrieved 25 March 2018.