Jean-Pierre Rousselot was a French priest who was an important phonetician and dialectologist.

Rousselot is considered the founder of experimental phonetics, both theoretical and applied, as manifested in the two volumes of his Principes de Phonétique Expérimentale (1897, 1901). He influenced many phoneticians and linguists, including Josef Chlumsky, Jean Poirot, Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia, Théodore Rosset, George Oscar Russell

George Oscar Russell

George Oscar Russel was an American speech scientist. He was a professor at the Ohio State University and published an influential book in 1928 called The Vowel: Its Physiological Mechanism as Shown by X-Ray. He was a student of Ludimar Hermann.-External links:*...

, Raymond Herbert Stetson

Raymond Herbert Stetson

Raymond Herbert Stetson was an American speech scientist at Oberlin College. In 1928 he published an influential book called Motor Phonetics: A Study of Speech Movements in Action....

, and Lev Shcherba

Lev Shcherba

Lev Shcherba was a Russian linguist and lexicographer specializing in phonetics and phonology....

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