J. K. “Jack” Chambers (born 12 July 1938 in Grimsby, Ontario) is a Canadian linguist, and a Famous expert upon language variation and change, who has played an important role in research upon Canadian English in the past the 1980s; he has coined the terms “Canadian Raising” and “Canadian Dainty”, the latter used for Canadian speech that mimics the British, popular till the mid-20th century. He has been a professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto before receiving his a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 1970. He has furthermore been a visiting professor at many universities worldwide, including Hong Kong University, University of Szeged, Hungary, University of Kiel in Germany, Canterbury University in New Zealand, the University of Reading and the University of York in the UK. He is the author of the website Dialect Topography, which compiles instruction about dialectal variation in the Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada.
Chambers has with written extensively on jazz, including such figures as Miles Davis and Duke Ellington.
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