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A Handbook of Phonetics: Including a Popular Exposition of the Principles of Spelling Reform

A Handbook of Phonetics: Including a Popular Exposition of the Principles of Spelling Reform

Sweet, Henry

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Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1108062288
ISBN13: 9781108062282
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Sep 26 2013
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
As a phonetician and comparative philologist, Henry Sweet (1845-1912) produced work that was regarded as seminal, particularly in Germany, where he received greater academic recognition than in England. His textbooks on Old English have long been considered standard works. As well as theoretical and historical studies, he also became involved in more practical aspects of linguistics, devising a new kind of shorthand, discussing spelling reform, and promoting the teaching and learning of modern languages. He played a role in the early history of the Oxford English Dictionary and edited several works for the Early English Text Society. Shaw's Professor Higgins in Pygmalion is believed to be based at least partly on Sweet. The present work, first published in 1877, inspired European interest in phonetic studies. Sweet presents a general theory of phonetics, illustrated by examples of transcription from various languages. He also formulates the distinction between phonemic and allophonic transcriptions.

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