Biography of Catford
Catford founded the School of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, as well as another department in the same university that undertook the mapping of different English dialects throughout Scotland. Catford could identify where people were from exclusively（仅仅地） through their speech.
John Cunnison Catford
约翰·坎尼森·卡特福德
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Biography
Biography of Catford
John Cunnison Catford (26 March 1917–6 October 2009) • Scottish linguist and phonetician（语言学家）of worldwide renown. • Catford was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. • After his secondary（中学的） and university studies, he studied phonetics（语
• Word-stress and sentence-stress: a practical and theoretical guide for teachers of Basic English《单词重音和句子重音：基础英语教学实践与理论指南》
• A Linguistic Theory of Translation 《翻译的语言学理论》1965
His expertise（专业知识）—— formal phonetics, the aerodynamic（空气动力学） and physiological production of speech（言语 产生的生理过程）, phonetic peculiarities in speech（言语的语音特点）, and an astounding ability to reproduce words, and even speeches, backwards – led him to be invited to the University of Michigan. There, he headed the English Language Institute and the Laboratory of Communicative Sciences (current the Laboratory of Phonetics). He taught most of the Linguistics subjects in the same university.
Biography of Catford
• He retired in 1985, but did not become inactive. On the contrary: he was invited to some of the most prestigious universities around the globe, including those in Istanbul, Jerusalem（耶路撒冷） and California. He published numerous articles, participated in many conferences and continued to lecture and give presentations, especially at the University of Michigan（密歇根大学）. Many of his original works are kept there. He advised many university students who wanted to follow a career in Linguistics.
Among his many articles, published essays and other works, it is worth highlighting the following:
• A Practical Introduction to Phonetics,2nd.ed.,Oxford University Press, Fundamental Problems in Phonetics《实用语音学简介》第二版1996
音学）. • He taught English abroad (in Greece, in Palestine（巴勒斯坦） and he met his
wife, Lotte, while he was living in Jerusalem（耶路撒冷）. He can speak Franch, Russian, Greek and a little German, Sanskirt（梵语), Latin, Arabic, Hebrew（希伯来语）, Turkish, Indonesian（印尼语） and so on. • two children from his marriage with Lotte: Lorna and Julian. • He died, of old age, in October 2009 in Shoreline, Washington, USA.), including during World War II.