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Phonetics in advanced learner's dictionaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2014

Jack Windsor Lewis
Jack Windsor Lewis*
Affiliation:
Thorner, West Yorkshire, UK [email protected]
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Abstract

The history is outlined of the origins and development, during the earlier twentieth century from the work of H. E. Palmer and A. S. Hornby, of a highly distinctive type of dictionary designed to meet the needs of non-native-speaking students of English. It was distinguished by its inclusion of various phonetic and grammatical matters previously almost entirely neglected. In doing so it made a major contribution to the remedying of deficiencies in our records of the English language in respect of the rhythmical characteristics of lexical items longer than the uncompounded word. Other phonetic aspects of these dictionaries are dealt with, including the arrival of related recorded spoken pronunciations.

Type
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Information
Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , April 2014 , pp. 75 - 82
Copyright
Copyright © International Phonetic Association 2014 

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