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Author Collins, Beverley

Title The real Professor Higgins : the life and career of Daniel Jones / by Beverley Collins, Inger M. Mees
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 571 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Foreword -- List of illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. In the days of his youth (1881�1903) -- Chapter 2. An aptitude for phonetics (1904-07) -- Chapter 3. Early years at University College London (1908-10) -- Chapter 4. Building up the Department (1911-14) -- Chapter 5. Studying spoken language -- Chapter 6. Not adversely affected by the war (1914-17) -- Chapter 7. A sort of mission -- Chapter 8. The Outline -- Chapter 9. A Professor of Phonetics (1919-21)
Chapter 10. They do nothing but phonetics (1921-30)Chapter 11. Upstairs and downstairs (1931-39) -- Chapter 12. In the Blitz and after (1939-50) -- Chapter 13. Final years -- Chapter 14. Jones's contribution to phonetics and linguistics -- Appendix. Historical Background -- Examination Papers -- International Phonetic Alphabet charts -- Notes -- List of interviews -- A chronological bibliography of the publications of Daniel Jones -- References -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-553) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Jones, Daniel, 1881-1967.
SUBJECT Jones, Daniel, 1881-1967. fast (OCoLC)fst00013670
Jones, Daniel Philologe. swd
Shaw, Bernard. swd
Pygmalion. swd
Subject Linguists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Phonetics -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain
Linguists.
Phonetics -- Study and teaching.
Phonetik
Methodologie
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Mees, Inger M
LC no. 98037959
ISBN 9783110812367
3110812363