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    Daniel Jones was a famous British phonetician born in 1881. He studied phonetics in Germany and Paris, and had a long career at University College London where he became the head of the Department of Phonetics in 1912. Jones made many important contributions to phonetics, including developing the cardinal vowel diagram and publishing the influential English Pronouncing Dictionary. He was also known for his work analyzing the sound systems of many other languages like Cantonese, Tswana, Sinhalese, and Russian.

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    Daniel Jones was a famous British phonetician born in 1881. He studied phonetics in Germany and Paris, and had a long career at University College London where he became the head of the Department of Phonetics in 1912. Jones made many important contributions to phonetics, including developing the cardinal vowel diagram and publishing the influential English Pronouncing Dictionary. He was also known for his work analyzing the sound systems of many other languages like Cantonese, Tswana, Sinhalese, and Russian.

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    DANIEL JONES

    A FAMOUS BRITISH
    PHONETICIAN

    Presentation is made by Oksana Kachulova


    Bitrh

     Daniel Jones was born in


    London, United Kingdom,
    on September 12, 1881.
    Education
     In 1900, Jones studied
    briefly at William Tilly's
    Marburg Language Institute
    in Germany, where he was
    first introduced to
    phonetics.
     In 1903, he received his BA
    degree in mathematics at
    Cambridge, converted by
    payment to MA in 1907.
    Education
     From 1905 to 1906, he
    studied in Paris under
    Paul Passy, who was one
    of the founders of the
    International Phonetic
    Association.
     He briefly took private
    lessons from the British
    phonetician Henry
    Sweet.
    Carrier
     In 1907, he became a part-time lecturer at
    University College London and was
    afterwards appointed to a full-time
    position.
     In 1912, he became the head of the
    Department of Phonetics and was
    appointed to a chair in 1921, a post he held
    until his retirement in 1949.
     From 1906 onwards, Jones was an active
    member of the International Phonetic
    Association, and was Assistant Secretary
    from 1907 to 1927, Secretary from 1927 to
    1949, and President from 1950 to 1967.
     After retirement, Jones worked assiduously
    at his publications almost up to the end of
    his long life.
    Works

     In 1909, Jones wrote the short


    Pronunciation of English, a book he
    later radically revised. The resulting
    work, An Outline of English
    Phonetics, followed in 1918 and is
    the first truly comprehensive
    description of British Received
    Pronunciation, and the first such
    description of the standard
    pronunciation of any language.
    Works
     The year 1917 was a landmark for Jones
    in many ways. He became the first linguist
    in the western world to use the term
    phoneme in its current sense, employing
    the word in his article "The phonetic
    structure of the Sechuana Language".
     Jones had made an earlier notable attempt
    at a pronunciation dictionary but it was
    now that he produced the first edition of
    his famous English Pronouncing
    Dictionary, a work which in revised form
    is still in print. It was here that the
    cardinal vowel diagram made a first
    appearance.
    Achievements
     The problem of the phonetic description of vowels is of long standing, going back
    to the era of the ancient Indian linguists. Three nineteenth-century British
    phoneticians worked on this topic. Jones however was the one who is generally
    credited with having gone much of the way towards a practical solution through his
    scheme of 'Cardinal Vowels', a relatively simple system of reference vowels which
    for many years has been taught systematically to students within the British
    tradition.
    Achievements
     Although Jones is especially remembered for his
    work on the phonetics and phonology of English,
    he ranged far more widely. He produced
    phonetic/phonolological treatments which were
    masterly for their time on the sound systems of
    Cantonese, Tswana (Sechuana as it was then
    known), Sinhalese, and Russian. He was the first
    phonetician to produce, in his "Sechuana Reader",
    a competent description of an African tone
    language, including the concept of downstep.
    Jones helped develop new alphabets for African
    languages, and suggested systems of romanisation
    for Indian languages and Japanese. He also busied
    himself with support for revised spelling for
    English through the Simplified Spelling Society.
    Marriage

     He studied phonetics
    under Paul Passy,
    whose niece Cyrille
    Motte he married in
    1911.

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