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The undesirability of length marks in EFL phonemic transcription

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

J. Windsor Lewis
Affiliation:
(University of Leeds)

Extract

In ‘Another note on RP notation’ (1974) Gordon Walsh of the Longman Materials Development Unit made some comments on the 1972 JIPA article of mine, on the notation of the British English segmental phonemes, which had offered an explanation of the symbol choices embodied in my Concise Pronouncing Dictionary and also used by me in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English (1974).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1975

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ADDENDA

I apologize to readers of my article ‘Linking /r/ in the General British pronunciation of English’, which appeared in the last number of JIPA (June 1975, Vol. 5, No. 1), pp. 37–42, for the following omissions from its References:

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