John Esling is a phonetician known internationally for his auditory and articulatory phonetic research on laryngeal/pharyngeal function in speech. The research group he directs, the Infant Speech Acquisition Project, is widely recognized for its pioneering discoveries of how infants' earliest vocalizations develop into speech sounds.

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ESLING, John H. –Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria
John Esling is a phonetician known internationally for his auditory and articulatory phonetic research on laryngeal/pharyngeal function in speech. His innovative laryngoscopic investigations of speech sounds in the languages of the world form the basis of the Laryngeal Articulator Model of the vocal tract. His reinterpretation of voice quality classification and of the International Phonetic Association chart has proven highly productive in explaining the organization of sounds in linguistic systems. The research group he directs, the Infant Speech Acquisition Project, is widely recognized for its pioneering discoveries of how infants' earliest vocalizations develop into speech sounds.