Fred Lukoff ( ko, 프레드 루코프) (November 12, 1920 – August 13, 2000) was an American

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who specialized in the study of the

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and was the first president of the International Association for Korean Language Education (IAKLE). A student of

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, with whom he wrote "The phonemes of Kingwana- Swahili" in 1942, Lukoff received his bachelor's degree from the

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in 1947, his master's from the same institution in 1948, and his doctorate, also from Penn, in 1954. After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the

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Research Laboratory of Electronics the same year as

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to work on

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under Victor Yngve, where, in 1956, he wrote a seminal paper on generative

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, "On accent and juncture in English," with Chomsky and

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. He taught at

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for the next seven years, and spent the rest of his career at the

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until his retirement in 1989.LINGUIST List 11.1779: Obituary: Fred Lukoff, 1920-2000
/ref> Lukoff wrote several textbooks for non-native speakers learning Korean, including ''An Introductory Course in Korean'', ''Spoken Korean'', and ''A First Reader in Korean Writing in Mixed Script''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lukoff, Fred Linguists from the United States 1920 births 2000 deaths Scientists from Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania alumni Korean language University of Washington faculty Koreanists 20th-century linguists