

Visiting Professor, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.Lecturer, Summer Symposium on Acoustic Phonetics and Speech Modelling, 22 June - 31 July 1981, Williams College, Williamstown, MA sponsored by Institute for Defense Analyses, Princeton, NJ.Exchange Professor, Department of Linguistics, UCLA, January - March 1981.Visiting Lektor, Institute of Phonetics, University of Copenhagen, September - November 1973.Exchange Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, summer 1971, summer 1972.Visiting Researcher, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, summer 1970.Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, July 1977 - present.Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, July 1972-June 1977.Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, April 1970-June 1972.From my teens to approximately age 24 I had various part-time, low-paying, jobs as: caddy, short-order cook, factory worker, gardener, usher, babysitter, photographer, editor, Coordinator of Language Instruction in a Peace Corps Training Program, and research assistant.

Ph.D., Linguistics, June 1969, UCLA (Dissertation directed by Peter Ladefoged ).A.B., English, June 1963, University of Notre Dame,.Married: 24 November 1969 in New Delhi, India, to Manjari Agrawal.Born: 19 July 1941 in Chicago, Illinois.His research interests are in experimental phonology and phonetics and ethological aspects of communication, including speech perception, sound change, phonetic and phonological universals, psycholinguistic studies in phonology, and sound symbolism. He has been on the Berkeley faculty since 1970. Ohala is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics. John Ohala's Home Page John Ohala, Emeritus Lab Director
