John H Esling

Biographic Data

ID95509
NAMEJohn H Esling
GIVEN NAMESJohn H
FAMILY NAMEEsling
SIGNATUREESLING J H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Victoria
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS94
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Catford, J. C.

    Open AccessJimmy G Harris, John H EslingCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2026

    Professor Emeritus J. C. Ian Catford was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1917 and died peacefully in Seattle, Washington, in 2009. Ian's father was English and his mother was Scottish. He grew up in Edinburgh and considered himself more Scottish than English. In his preteens, he was seriously interested in engineering, especially the aerodynamics of steam flow, steam values, and cylinders of steam locomotives.

  • Qualité vocale et enseignement de la phonétique comme point de convergence épistémologique

    John H Esling, John Esling et al.ARTICLELangages2023Cited by: 4References: 10

    Quelle est la relation entre la qualité vocale, la pratique de l'enseignement et les sciences de la parole ? Notre réflexion épistémologique examine trois contextes d'enseignement : la phonétique dans un contexte académique, la prononciation en langue seconde (L2) et la phonétique clinique pour les cliniciens. Nous opposons les approches pédagogiques déclaratives-explicites et procédurales-implicites, et nous proposons des contributions innovante…

  • Phonological potentials and the lower vocal tract

    Open AccessScott R Moisik, Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International…2021

    This paper outlines a theoretical approach to speech sound systems based on the notion of phonological potentials: physical ‘pressures’ or biases that give rise to discrete structure and the tendencies associated with this structure that arise from the physical nature of speech sound systems. We apply this approach to a poorly understood area of phonology – phenomena of the lower vocal tract (LVT) – through a schematic that encapsulates the compl…

  • Jianchuan Bai

    Open AccessJerold A Edmondson, John H Esling et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International…2021

    The Bai language ( ) is spoken by approximately 1.6 million people in northwest Yunnan Province, China. Of the 25 minority languages spoken in Yunnan, where 33% of the population are ethnic minorities and 67% are Han Chinese, the Bai ethnic minority is second in population only to the Yi (Wiersma 1990, 2003; 2010 census). Bai is classified as a Tibeto-Burman language (Xu & Zhao 1964, 1984), although arguments have been raised as to its possible e…

  • Revisions to the VoQS system for the transcription of voice quality

    Open AccessMartin J Ball, John H Esling et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International…2018Cited by: 2References: 4

    The 'voice quality symbols' (VoQS) transcription system for voice quality was introduced some 20 years ago, and no major revision has been undertaken since then. In this account we describe the first major revision of the VoQS chart, these changes being mostly in the form of additions to the section on phonation types, but include also changes to the layout of the supralaryngeal settings section. These reflect recent developments in the understan…

  • Nuosu Yi

    Open AccessJerold A Edmondson, John H Esling et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International…2017Cited by: 3References: 6

    The Nuosu (Nosu) Yi language, or Northern Yi (北部彝语), is spoken by approximately two million people in southern Sichuan Province and northern Yunnan Province, China, the majority of whom are monolingual. Yi is a member of the Yi Branch of the Lolo-Burmese subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman family (Benedict 1972/2009, Bradley 1979), which includes some 50 languages, also called the Nisoic languages (Lama 2012) or Ngwi Group. The large (5 million) ethnic…

  • A study of laryngeal gestures in Mandarin citation tones using simultaneous laryngoscopy and laryngeal ultrasound (SLLUS)

    Open AccessScott R Moisik, Hua Lin et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International…2014Cited by: 11References: 48

    In this work, Mandarin tone production is examined usingsimultaneous laryngoscopy and laryngeal ultrasound(SLLUS). Laryngoscopy is used to obtain information about laryngeal state, and laryngeal ultrasound is used to quantify changes in larynx height. With this methodology, several observations are made concerning the production of Mandarin tone in citation form. Two production strategies are attested for low tone production: (i) larynx lowering …

  • In Memoriam: Jimmy G. Harris (1930–2012)

    Open AccessJohn H EslingARTICLEJournal of the International…2013

    Jimmy Gene Harris died in Seattle on 30 September 2012, at the age of 82. He led a remarkable life. He was a soldier of fortune, a champion for human rights, an exacting phonetic fieldworker, an observer of human nature, a teller of stories, a teacher and a mentor. Raised in the Arkansas Ozarks, he began his international adventures as a US Marine Corps sergeant in the Korean War. He pursued his linguistic education in Mexico City and at the Univ…

  • Voice Quality

    Open AccessJohn H EslingCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2012

    Voice quality refers to the long‐term phonetic characteristics of a person's accent, although the term is also used in a narrower sense for the type of phonation produced in the larynx.

  • The Articulatory Function of the Larynx and the Origins of Speech

    Open AccessJohn H EslingARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…2012

    The ‘laryngeal articulator,’ consisting of the glottal mechanism, the supraglottic tube, the pharyngeal/epiglottal mechanism, and including three levels of folds: the vocal folds, the ventricular folds, and the aryepiglottic folds, is shown to be responsible for the generation of multiple source vibrations and for the complex modification of the pharyngeal resonating chamber that accounts for a wide range of contrastive auditory qualities. These …

  • Th Anniversary of Jipa

    Open AccessJohn H EslingARTICLEJournal of the International…2010

    This year, 2010, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Journal of the International Phonetic Association and the 125th anniversary of the publishing of a journal by the Association. From 1886 through 1888, the journal had the title The Phonetic Teacher , rendered variably as Dhi Fonètik Tîtcer (1886–1887), dhə fənetik tîtcər (1887–1888), ðə fonetik tîtcər (1888). From 1889 to 1970, the name of the journal was Le Maître Phoné…

  • The valves of the throat and their functioning in tone, vocal register and stress: Laryngoscopic case studies

    Open AccessJerold A Edmondson, John H EslingARTICLEPhonology2006

    The standard method of describing phonation for tone, vocal register, stress and other linguistic categories relies on the ‘continuum hypothesis’ that linguistic sounds are produced by means of glottal states determined by the aperture between the arytenoid cartilages, the endpoints of the voiceless–voiced continuum being ‘open glottis’ and ‘closed glottis’. This paper takes a different view, pointing out that many languages make use of a number …

  • There Are No Back Vowels: The Larygeal Articulator Model

    Open AccessJohn H EslingARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of…2005

    As an alternative to the high-low-front-back model of vowel specification, the laryngeal articulator model is proposed, based on a reinterpretation of how the vocal tract functions to produce laryngeal and pharyngeal sounds. Evidence drawn from numerous laryngoscopic studies demonstrates the scope of articulatory behaviours possible in the pharynx. For a broad sample of languages, lingual retraction is shown to accompany laryngeal/pharyngeal gest…

  • Glottal stop, glottalized resonants, and pharyngeals: A reinterpretation with evidence from a laryngoscopic study of Nuuchahnulth (Nootka)

    Open AccessJohn H Esling, Katie Fraser et al.ARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2005Cited by: 13References: 19

  • Phonetics and physiology of the historical shift of uvulars to pharyngeals in Nuuchahnulth (Nootka)

    Open AccessBarry F Carlson, John H EslingARTICLEJournal of the International…2003Cited by: 3

    This paper examines the phonetic typology of pharyngeal sounds and presents external articulatory evidence for the phonological shift from uvular ejectives to pharyngeals in the Nootka dialects of Nuuchahnulth, based on the theory of the function of the aryepiglottic laryngeal sphincter mechanism. The phonetic structure of postvelar sounds is evaluated laryngoscopically in Wakashan and in Salish (cross-linguistically) to explain the historical ph…

  • Nuuchahnulth

    Open AccessBarry F Carlson, John H Esling et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International…2001Cited by: 6

    Nuuchahnulth (PHONETICS), often referred to in the literature as Nootka, is a Wakashan language spoken by people living on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Each of thirteen Nuuchahnulth bands represents a different dialect group. Nitinaht (Diitiidath) is usually included in the Nuuchahnulth group, but it is divergent enough to be considered a separate language. The data in this illustration represent the Ahousaht (P…

  • Spokane

    Open AccessBarry F Carlson, John H EslingARTICLEJournal of the International…2000Cited by: 2References: 7

    Spokane and Kalispel (NpoqÉ ånišcn, Qalispé), both located in eastern Washington State, and Montana Salish (Flathead), are nearly identical dialects of an Interior Salish language now spoken by only a handful of elders. Grammatical sketches are available for Spokane (Carlson 1972) and Kalispel (Vogt 1940). There is no modern grammar of Montana Salish; Black (1996) uses both Spokane and Montana Salish material in her doctoral dissertation. Thompso…

  • Council election, 1999

    Open AccessJohn H EslingARTICLEJournal of the International…1999

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  • The IPA Categories “Pharyngeal” and “Epiglottal”: Laryngoscopic Observations of Pharyngeal Articulations and Larynx Height

    Open AccessJohn H EslingARTICLELanguage and Speech1999Cited by: 10References: 21

    The phonetic problem is to describe accurately the articulatory mechanism, or mechanisms, responsible for the production of a series of sounds that are presently labelled on the chart of the International Phonetic Association as either pharyngeal or epiglottal. The sounds on which these categories are based are found in the Semitic languages, in the languages of the Caucasus, and in the languages of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America. I…

  • Dr. Henry J. Warkentyne

    Open AccessCraig Dickson, John H Esling et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International…1997

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  • IPA Council Election 1999

    Open AccessJohn H EslingARTICLEJournal of the International…1997

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  • Revision of the Membership By-law

    Open AccessJohn H EslingARTICLEJournal of the International…1996

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  • Pharyngeal consonants and the aryepiglottic sphincter

    Open AccessJohn H EslingARTICLEJournal of the International…1996Cited by: 11References: 21

    Recent laryngoscopic observations suggest that renewed discussion of pharyngeal articulations is warranted. The discussion involves issues of place of articulation - the nature of the category "epiglottal" - and of manner of articulation - whether pharyngeal manners of articulation go beyond approximant and fricative to include trill and stop. In essence, the question is still the old one of how those sounds which are labelled auditorily as "phar…

  • Minutes of the General Meeting 1995

    Open AccessJohn H EslingARTICLEJournal of the International…1995

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  • News of the IPA

    Open AccessJohn H EslingARTICLEJournal of the International…1995

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