You may copy any material on this website (www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick) and use it in any way you want, but I would be pleased if you acknowledged the source.
I have a wife (Gaynor) and two grown-up daughters (Lucy and Alice).
I am an 'emeritus' (i.e. retired) professor of linguistics in theDepartment of Phonetics and Linguisticsat University College London, where I worked throughout my working life (1964-2004).
I have a BA in Modern (and Medieval) Languages from Cambridge (1961).
I did a PhD in the School of Oriental and African Studies (London, 1964), with a thesis on the grammar of the Cushitic language of the Beja (or Bedawie) people in the north-east of the Sudan).