Dwight Robert Ladd - Curriculum Vitae#

Education and degrees:

• May 1978, Ph.D. in Linguistics, Cornell University
  
• August 1972, M.A. in Linguistics, Cornell University
  
• June 1968, A.B. (magna cum laude) in Linguistics, Brown University
  

Current position: Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus), University of Edinburgh

Principal previous positions:

• University of Edinburgh, 1985-2011 (Lecturer 1985-1989; Reader 1989-1997; Professor of Linguistics (personal chair), 1997-2011). Visiting positions include Institute for Perception Research (1994) and Johns Hopkins University (2000). Post-doctoral positions include Universities of Giessen (1981-83) and Sussex (1983-84).

Academic/Research Leadership, Public Service, Recognition:

• Elected Fellow of the British Academy, 2015
  
• First President of Association for Laboratory Phonology, 2010-2014
  
• Head of School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 2008-2010
  

Principal Publications:

Books

2014: Simultaneous Structure in Phonology. Oxford: OUP

1996: Intonational Phonology. Cambridge: CUP. Second edition, 2008

1980: The Structure of Intonational Meaning: Evidence from English. Bloomington:

Indiana University Press

Articles

2007: D. Dediu & D. R. Ladd. Linguistic tone is related to the population frequency of

the adaptive haplogroups of two brain size genes, ASPM and Microcephalin.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 10944-10949

2000: M. Grice, D. R. Ladd & A. Arvaniti. On the place of phrase accents in

intonational phonology. Phonology 17: 143-186

1998: A. Arvaniti, D. R. Ladd & I. Mennen. Stability of tonal alignment: the case of

Greek prenuclear accents. J. Phonetics 26: 3-25

1988: Declination ‘reset’ and the hierarchical organization of utterances. J. Acoustical

Society of America 84: 530-544

1978: Stylized intonation. Language 54: 517-540