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149 LINGUISTS’ NAMES
Table 25.1 continued
Name Pronunciation Sex
McMahon, A. mək�mɑ�n F
Mey, J. me�, ma� 4 M
Mithun, M. m��θu�n F
Paul, H. paυl M
Pierce, C. S. p��s M
Pullum, G. K. �pυləm M
Ramsaran, S. r�m�sɑ�r�n F
Robins, R. H. �rəυb�nz M
Roeper, T. �rəυpə M
Sadock, J. M. �se�dɒk M
Sapir, E. sə�p�ə M
Seuren, P. A. M. �sju:rən M
Siewierska, A. ʃe�v�əskə F
Trask, R. L. tr�sk M
Trudgill, P. �tr�dɡ�l M
Wasow, T. �wɑ�səυ M
Wierzbicka, A. v�əʒ�b�tskə F
1 Juliette is female, Jim (J. P.) is male.
2 I once asked Terry which he preferred, and he answered (unhelpfully) that he was happy with
either.
3 The first pronunciation given here is the American one (and thus the one used by Labov
himself) and follows the American tradition of taking foreign vowels to be equivalent to
English tense vowels, while the second is the British pronunciation, which follows the British
tradition of taking foreign vowels to be short vowels (contrast the American and British pronunciations
of adios, which vary in precisely the same way).
4 The Dutch diphthong falls between the two English diphthongs, and may be heard as either.