Bowker Biography:
Raymond Grant Gordon, Jr.

Raymond Grant Gordon, Jr. was born n Fitchburg, Massachusetts on August 24, 1936. He was raised in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. He is married with four children.

Raymond earned his PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University in 1981. Since his research work in the Native American Crow language, Dr. Gordon has worked in linguistics and literacy for over thirty years. Dr. Gordon was adjunct assistant professor in linguistics at the University of Texas at Arlington from 1979 to 1988, and has produced various publications and papers on linguistics related subjects. He has authored various computer programs to help with linguistic analysis and native language texts.

Within SIL International, Dr. Gordon has served as field linguist, linguistic and literacy consultant, branch director, board member, and editor of several publications, most recently Ethnologue 15th edition.

His hobbies and interests include musical pursuits with the keyboard, speech synthesis, amateur radio, church history, and hiking.

 

 

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