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Notes on some graphetic aspects of RP vowel notation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Allan R. James  and
K. J. P. Westney
Allan R. James
Affiliation:
Engels Seminarium, University of Amsterdam
K. J. P. Westney
Affiliation:
Seminar für englische Philologie, Universität Tübingen
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The dominance within the EFL world of the Jones transcription system (DJ), as in the EPD (Jones, 1967), has been seriously challenged by the adoption of the new Windsor Lewis system (WL) in the Concise Pronouncing Dictionary (Lewis, 1972a) and the new edition of the ALD (Hornby, 1974). This issue (recently discussed in, e.g., Lewis, 1972b, and Walsh, 1974) is likely to remain a lively one at least until the appearance of the simplified Gimson system in the next edition of the EPD ; meanwhile there are other systems that have some claim to use in EFL teaching, e.g. those in Gimson (1970) (G), Abercrombie (1964), and the Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics (Allen and Corder, 1974/1975).

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , December 1976 , pp. 86 - 91
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1976

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