| John Harris | |
| Birth Date: | 1954 |
| Fields: | linguistics |
| Workplaces: | University College London |
| Education: | University of Edinburgh (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Linguistic change in a nonstandard dialect: phonological studies in the history of English in Ireland |
| Thesis Url: | https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/18261 |
| Thesis Year: | 1983 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Roger Lass, Gillian Brown |
| Academic Advisors: | Jim Milroy, Lesley Milroy, John C Wells, Nigel Gotteri |
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John Harris (born 1954) is an Irish linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University College London. He is best known for his works on phonetics and phonology.[1] [2] [3] [4] A festschrift in his honor titled Sonic Signatures edited by Geoff Lindsey and Andrew Nevins was published in 2017.[5]