had five grandchildren Zelda Ladefoged, Ethan Friedman, Amy Friedman, Joseph Weiss, and Catherine Weiss. On May 5, 1970, Ladefoged was arrested and suffered injuries from police while participating in an anti–Vietnam War protest at UCLA. He was initially charged with failure to disperse, but the charge was later changed to assault on a police officer. He was acquitted in the first trial. Death Ladefoged died on 24 January 2006 at the age of 80 in hospital in London, England after a research trip to India. He was on his way home to Los Angeles, California from his research trip. Academic timeline 1953–55: Assistant Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Edinburgh 1955–59: Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Edinburgh 1959–60: Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 1960–61: Lecturer in Phonetics, University of Edinburgh 1961–62: Field fellow, Linguistic Survey of West Africa, Nigeria Summer 1960: University of Michigan Summer 1961: Royal Institute of Technology, [Kungliga Tekniska högskolan or KTH], (Stockholm, Sweden) 1962–63: Assistant Professor of Phonetics, Department of English, UCLA 1962: Established, and directed until 1991, the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory 1963–65: Associate Professor of Phonetics, Department of Linguistics], UCLA 1965–91: Professor of Phonetics, Department of Linguistics, UCLA 1977–80: Chair, Department of Linguistics, UCLA 1991: "retired" to become UCLA Research Linguist, Distinguished Professor of Phonetics Emeritus 2005: Leverhulme Professor, University of Edinburgh 2005–06: Adjunct professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Academic honours Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America Fellow of the American Speech and Hearing Association Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA 1972 President, Linguistic Society of America, 1978 President of the Permanent Council for the Organization of International Congresses of Phonetic Sciences, 1983–1991 President, International Phonetic Association, 1987–1991 UCLA Research Lecturer 1989 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1990 UCLA College of Letters and Science Faculty Research Lecturer 1991 Gold medal, XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 1991 Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy 1992 Honorary D.Litt., University of Edinburgh, 1993 Foreign Member, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1993 Silver medal, Acoustical Society of America 1994 Corresponding Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2001 Honorary D.Sc. Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2002 Selected publications Monograph supplement to Revista do Laboratório de Fonética Experimental da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra(Journal of Experimental Phonetics Laboratory of the Faculty of Arts, University of Coimbra). Paperback edition 1971. Translation into Japanese, Taishukan Publishing Company, 1976. Second edition, with added chapters on