Re: question on sampa representation
| From: | And Rosta <a.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 24, 2003, 14:43 |
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John:
> J.C. Wells is the inventor of X-SAMPA, editor of the Longmans Pronouncing
> Dictionary, former Secretary of the International Phonetics Association
> (keepers of the IPA), English-language dialectologist, long-distance
> runner, and Esperantist. In short, the Daniel Jones of our day
He also has the signal honour of having been my first phonetics teacher....
As you must be aware, the "Daniel Jones" label is apt also because Jones
is Wells's academic grandfather (Jones > Gimson > Wells).
--And.