The Real Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel Jones

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This volume presents the first full-scale biography of Daniel Jones, a preeminent scholar and leading British phonetician of the early twentieth century, and the first linguist to hold a chair at a British university. This book, richly illustrated with partly unpublished material traces Jones's life and career, including his contacts with other linguists, and with figures outside the linguistic world notably Robert Bridges and George Bernard Shaw.

Foreword

xiii

Professor J.C. Wells

List of illustrations

xiv

List of abbreviations

Preface

xxi

Acknowledgements

xxiii

In the days of his youth (1881-1903)

(17)

Birth

(1)

Family background

(2)

Ludgrove Preparatory School

(2)

Radley College

(1)

University College School

(4)

Cambridge and after

(1)

William Tilly

(3)

Jones at Institut Tilly

(3)

An aptitude for phonetics (1904-07)

(39)

A timely illness

(1)

The Motte family

(3)

Paul Passy

(3)

Passy's classes and the IPA examination

(3)

Phonetics at University College

(5)

Joining the IPA and early publications

(4)

Phonetic transcriptions of English prose

(5)

Le Maitre phonetique 1907

(1)

Henry Sweet

(6)

Jone's first encounters with Sweet

(2)

``Implosives and clicks'' and the Organic Alphabet

(3)

Provost Gregory Foster

(4)

Early years at University College London (1908-10)

(28)

Teaching at University College 1908-09

(1)

Chaucer and Shakespeare

(2)

Intonation curves

(5)

The pronunciation of English

(10)

Articles in 1908-09

(1)

Foundation of the Simplified Spelling Society

(1)

Grenoble

(1)

Discussions with Palmer

(1)

Chindau

(2)

Elections in the IPA

(1)

Teaching at University College 1909-10

(4)

Building up the Department (1911-14)

(27)

The links with Paul Passy

(1)

Cyrille Motte

(2)

A wedding in Brittany

(1)

Return to London

(1)

Departmental status

(1)

The Paris Lecture

(2)

Tours of Scandinavia and India 1912-13

(1)

The death of Sweet

(4)

Bernard Shaw and Pygmalion

(6)

The Simplified Spelling Society

103

(1)

The battles with Bridges

104

(8)

Studying spoken language

112

(24)

Phonetic readings in English

112

(1)

The Cantonese phonetic reader and the London phonetic reader series

113

(6)

The Michaelis---Jones Phonetic dictionary

119

(5)

Minor publications 1911-14

124

(1)

The IPA Principles

125

(2)

Work for the IPA 1911-14

127

(1)

Transcription in Le Maitre phonetique

128

(1)

University College 1912-14

129

(1)

Jones at Oxford

130

(1)

Stephen Jones and the Laboratory

131

(2)

The outbreak of war

133

(3)

Not adversely affected by the war (1914-17)

136

(28)

Adjustments to wartime

136

(1)

The Department in the early war years

137

(1)

A readership

138

(1)

The appointment of Harold Palmer

139

(2)

Death of Jones's father

141

(1)

The Jones family

142

(1)

Solomon Plaatje

143

(3)

The Sechuana reader

146

(9)

Jones's methods of linguistic fieldwork

155

(9)

A sort of mission

164

(38)

Ripman's influence

164

(2)

The English pronouncing dictionary

166

(7)

The Cardinal Vowel model of vowel description

173

(9)

The work of the Department in the later war years

182

(3)

The Philological Society Lecture and the term ``phoneme''

185

(3)

Jones's experimental interests and the Cardinal Vowels

188

(4)

Work of the Department 1917-18

192

(2)

Lilias Armstrong and H.S. Perera

194

(2)

The birth of Jones's son

196

(3)

The idea of an Institute of Phonetics

199

(1)

The coming of peace

200

(2)

The Outline

202

(53)

Introduction

202

(1)

Opening chapters

202

(9)

Classification of consonants and vowels

211

(6)

Description of consonants

217

(9)

Description of vowels

226

(7)

Supra-segmental features

233

(6)

Intonation

239

(6)

The kymograph

245

(7)

Appendices

252

(3)

A Professor of Phonetics (1919-21)

255

(30)

Work of the Department 1919-21

255

(1)

Ida Ward and Helene Coustenoble

256

(3)

The proposed Institute of Phonetics

259

(7)

A Colloquial Sinhalese Reader

266

(7)

Dorothy Parkinson and Arthur Lloyd James

273

(2)

Unpublished lectures on Italian, Spanish and French

275

(6)

Health problems

281

(2)

A Professor of Phonetics

283

(2)

They do nothing but phonetics (1921-30)

285

(37)

The later career

285

(1)

The Department in the early twenties

285

(2)

Vacation courses

287

(1)

Family and personal life 1921-30

288

(1)

The pronunciation of Russian

289

(10)

Shorter publications and revisions 1921-30

299

(3)

Colloquial French

302

(4)

Involvement in theosophy

306

(3)

The IPA and Le Maitre phonetique in the 1920s

309

(3)

Otto Jespersen and the Copenhagen Conference

312

(4)

Involvement with the BBC

316

(2)

Travels to the USA and elsewhere

318

(1)

The Department in the 1920s

319

(1)

John Rupert Firth

320

(2)

Upstairs and downstairs (1931-39)

322

(28)

Changes in University College

322

(1)

A house in Gerrards Cross

323

(1)

Revision of the Outline and the EPD

324

(1)

The phoneme (and the Joneme)

325

(3)

Shorter publications

328

(4)

Work of the Department in the thirties

332

(3)

Upstairs and downstairs

335

(2)

Firth's growing influence

337

(1)

Dennis Fry

338

(1)

The 1935 Conference

339

(3)

The rise and fall of the Simplified Spelling Society

342

(2)

Honour and bereavement

344

(3)

The IPA in the 1930s

347

(2)

The outbreak of war

349

(1)

In the Blitz and after (1939--50)

350

(26)

The phoney war and evacuation

350

(2)

In the Blitz

352

(3)

The feud with Firth

355

(1)

Return to Gordon Square

356

(1)

The Zurich Lecture and ``The London School of Phonetics''

357

(1)

Publications on the phoneme

358

(2)

New alphabets

360

(3)

The SSS and Bernard Shaw

363

(4)

Work for the BBC

367

(4)

The IPA and Le Maitre phonetique

371

(1)

Final years at University College

372

(2)

Retirement

374

(2)

Final years

376

(35)

Jones in retirement

376

(1)

Theosophy and Maud MacCarthy

377

(1)

Family life

378

(1)

The Phoneme: introduction

379

(2)

The Phoneme: opening chapters

381

(1)

The Phoneme: aspects of phonemic analysis

382

(2)

The Phoneme: suprasegmental features

384

(1)

The Phoneme: wider implications

385

(4)

Reactions to the Phoneme

389

(1)

Revision of the Pronounciation of English

390

(5)

Annus mirabilis

395

(3)

Shorter publications 1950--60

398

(1)

The elder statesman of phonetics

399

(1)

Activities in last years

400

(3)

The phonetics of Russian

403

(5)

Death

408

(3)

Jones's contribution to phonetics and linguistics

411

(44)

Introduction

411

(1)

Establishing and running the University College Department

411

(2)

The International Phonetic Association

413

(1)

Other organisational activities

414

(1)

Description and teaching of English

415

(3)

English as a foreign language

418

(2)

Description and teaching of French

420

(1)

Ear-training techniques

421

(3)

Transcription

424

(2)

Jones's view of phonetics

426

(2)

Description of languages other than English

428

(1)

Information of English

429

(4)

Tone languages

433

(1)

The Cardinal Vowel system

434

(12)

Chaucerian and Shakespearean reconstructions

446

(2)

The concept of the phoneme

448

(4)

Conclusion

452

(3)

Appendix A Historical background

455

(28)

A.1. The roots of phonetic studies

455

(1)

A.2. The early development of the English School

455

(7)

A.3. Britain and America in the nineteenth century

462

(9)

A.4. Germany and Scandinavia

471

(6)

A.5. France and Switzerland

477

(2)

A.6. Eastern Europe

479

(3)

A.7. Historical surveys of nineteenth and early twentieth century phonetics/phonology

482

(1)

Examination papers

483

(6)

International Phonetic Alphabet charts

489

(6)

Notes

495

(18)

List of interviews

513

(2)

Chronological bibliography of Jones's work

515

(14)

References

529

(26)

Index

555

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The Real Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel Jones

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