John Harris (born 1954) is a Northern Irish linguist and

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of Linguistics at

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. He is best known for his works on

phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians ...

and

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. A festschrift in his honor titled ''Sonic Signatures'' edited by Geoff Lindsey and Andrew Nevins was published in 2017.

Books

*''Phonological variation and change: studies in Hiberno-English'', Cambridge University Press 1985 *''English sound structure'', Wiley-Blackwell 1994

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John Harris
21st-century British linguists Phonologists from the United Kingdom Academics of University College London Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Phoneticians 1954 births Living people Linguists from Ireland 20th-century British linguists {{Ireland-academic-bio-stub