Douglas Whalen

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Douglas H. Whalen is an American linguist who is presently a program officer at the National Science Foundation where he is affiliated with the Cognitive Neuroscience[1], Documenting Endangered Languages[2], and Linguistics[3] programs. He is also the Vice President for Research and a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories where he studies the relationship between speech production and speech perception. He is also the President of the Endangered Language Fund[4]. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in linguistics.