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 This book, richly illustrated with partly unpublished material traces Jones's life and career, including his contacts with other linguists, and with figures outside the linguistic world notably Robert Bridges and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. Contents Foreword List of illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements 1 In the days of his youth (1881?1903) 1.1. Birth 1.2. Family background 1.3. Ludgrove Preparatory School 1.4. Radley College 1.5. University College School 1.6. Cambridge and after 1.7. William Tilly 1.8. Jones at Institut Tilly 2 An aptitude for phonetics (1904?07) 2.1. A timely illness 2.2. The Motte family 2.3. Paul Passy 2.4. Passy?s classes and the IPA examination 2.5. Phonetics at University College 2.6. Joining the IPA and early publications 2.7. Phonetic transcriptions of English prose 2.8. Le Ma?tre phon?tique 1907 2.9. Henry Sweet 2.10. Jones?s first encounters with Sweet 2.11. ?Implosives and clicks? and the Organic Alphabet 2.12. Provost Gregory Foster 3 Early years at University College London (1908?10) 3.1. Teaching at University College 1908?09 3.2. Chaucer and Shakespeare 3.3. Intonation curves 3.4. The pronunciation of English 3.5. Articles in 1908?09 3.6. Foundation of the Simplified Spelling Society 3.7. Grenoble 3.8. Discussions with Palmer 3.9. Chindau 3.10. Elections in the IPA 3.11. Teaching at University College 1909?10 4 Building up the Department (I911?14) 4.1. The links with Paul Passy 4.2. Cyrille Motte 4.3. A wedding in Brittany 4.4. Return to London 4.5. Departmental status 4.6. The Paris Lecture 4.7. Tours of Scandinavia and India 1912?13 4.8. The death of Sweet 4.9. Bernard Shaw and Pygmalion 4.10. The Simplified Spelling Society 4.11. The battles with Bridges 5 Studying spoken language 5.1. Phonetic readings in English 5.2. The Cantonese phonetic reader and the London Phonetic Reader series 5.3. The Michaelis?Jones Phonetic dictionary 5.4. Minor publications 1911?14 5.5. The IPA Principles 5.6. Work for the IPA 1911?14 5.7. Transcription in Le Ma?tre phon?tique 5.8. University College 1912?14 5.9. Jones at Oxford 5.10. Stephen Jones and the Laboratory 5.11. The outbreak of war 6 Not adversely affected by the war (1914?17) 6.1. Adjustments to wartime 6.2. The Department in the early war years 6.3. A readership 6.4. The appointment of Harold Palmer 6.5. Death of Jones?s father 6.6. The Jones family 6.7. Solomon Plaatje 6.8. The Sechuana reader 6.9. Jones?s methods of linguistic fieldwork 7 A sort of mission 7.1. Ripman?s influence 7.2. The English pronouncing dictionary 7.3. The Cardinal Vowel model of vowel description 7.4. The work of the Department in the later war years 7.5. The Philological Society Lecture and the term ?phoneme? 7.6. Jones?s experimental interests and the Cardinal Vowels 7.7. Work of the Department 1917?18 7.8. Lilias Armstrong and H.S. Perera 7.9. The birth of Jones?s son 7.10. The idea of an Institute of Phonetics 7.11. The coming of peace 8 The Outline 8.1. Introduction 8.2. Opening chapters 8.3. Classification of consonants and vowels 8.4. Description of consonants 8.5. Description of vowels 8.6. Supra-segmental features 8.7. Intonation 8.8 The kymograph 8.9 Appendices 9 A Professor of Phonetics (1919?21) 9.1. Work of the Department 1919?21 9.2. Ida Ward and H?l?ne Coustenoble 9.3. The proposed Institute of Phonetics 9.4. A Colloquial Sinhalese Reader 9.5. Dorothy Parkinson and Arthur Lloyd James 9.6. Unpublished lectures on Italian, Spanish and French 9.7. Health problems 9.8. A Professor of Phonetics 10 They do nothing but phonetics (1921?30) 10.1. The later career 10.2. The Department in the early twenties 10.3. Vacation courses 10.4. Family and personal life 1921?30 10.5. The pronunciation of Russian 10.6. Shorter publications and revisions 1921?30 10.7. Colloquial French 10.8. Involvement in theosophy 10.9. The IPA and Le Ma?tre phon?tique in the 1920s 10.10. Otto Jespersen and the Copenhagen Conference 10.11. Involvement with the BBC 10.12. Travels to the USA and elsewhere 10.13. The Department in the 1920s 10.14. John Rupert Firth 11 Upstairs and downstairs (1931?39) 11.1. Changes in University College 11.2. A house in Gerrards Cross 11.3. Revision of the Outline and the EPD 11.4. The phoneme (and the Joneme) 11.5. Shorter publications 11.6. Work of the Department in the thirties 11.7. Upstairs and downstairs 11.8. Firth?s growing influence 11.9. Dennis Fry 11.10. The 1935 Conference 11.11. The rise and fall of the Simplified Spelling Society 11.12. Honour and bereavement 11.13. The IPA in the 1930s 11.14. The outbreak of war 12 In the Blitz and after (1939?50) 12.1. The phoney war and evacuation 12.2. In the Blitz 12.3. The feud with Firth 12.4. Return to Gordon Square 12.5. The Z?rich Lecture and ?The London School of Phonetics? 12.6. Publications on the phoneme 12.7. New alphabets 12.8. The SSS and Bernard Shaw 12.9. Work for the BBC 12.10. The IPA and Le Ma?tre phon?tique 12.11. Final years at University College 12.12. Retirement 13 Final years 13.1. Jones in retirement 13.2. Theosophy and Maud MacCarthy 13.3. Family life 13.4. The Phoneme: introduction 13.5. The Phoneme: opening chapters 13.6. The Phoneme: aspects of phonemic analysis 13.7. The Phoneme: suprasegmental features 13.8. The Phoneme: wider implications 13.9. Reactions to the Phoneme 13.10. Revision of the Pronunciation of English 13.11. Annus mirabilis 13.12. Shorter publications 1950?60 13.13. The elder statesman of phonetics 13.14. Activities in last years 13.15. The phonetics of Russian 13.16. Death 14 Jones?s contribution to phonetics and linguistics 14.1. Introduction 14.2. Establishing and running the University College Department 14.3. The International Phonetic Association 14.4. Other organisational activities 14.5. Description and teaching of English 14.6. English as a foreign language 14.7. Description and teaching of French 14.8. Ear-training techniques 14.9. Transcription 14.10. Jones?s view of phonetics 14.11. Description of languages other than English 14.12. Intonation of English 14.13. Tone languages 14.14. The Cardinal Vowel system 14.15. Chaucerian and Shakespearean reconstructions 14.16. The concept of the phoneme 14.17. Conclusion Appendix Historical background A.1 The roots of phonetic studies A.2. The early development of the English School A.3. Britain and America in the nineteenth century A.4. Germany and Scandinavia A.5. France and Switzerland A.6. Eastern Europe A.7. Historical surveys of nineteenth and early twentieth century phonetics/phonology Examination Papers International Phonetic Alphabet charts Notes List of interviews A chronological bibliography of the publications of Daniel Jones References Index