David Ingram (born April 25, 1944) is an American linguist and

Emeritus Professor ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...

of Linguistics at

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

. He is best known for his works on

first language acquisition Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language (in other words, gain the ability to be aware of language and to understand it), as well as to produce and use words and sentences to ...

and

phonology Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

. A festschrift in his honor titled ''On under-reported monolingual child phonology'' edited by Elena Babatsouli was published in 2020.

Books

*''Phonological Disability in Children'' *''First Language Acquisition: Method, Description and Explanation'' *''Procedures for the Phonological Analysis of Children's Language''

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David Ingram
Linguists from the United States Phonologists from the United States Phoneticians 1944 births Living people Stanford University alumni Arizona State University Semanticists {{US-linguist-stub