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PALMER, Harold E., MARTIN, J. Victor, BLANDFORD, F. G. (Daniel Jones)
| Title | A Dictionary of English Pronunciation with American Variants (In Phonetic Transcription). |
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| Publisher | Cambridge Heffer |
| Date | 1926 |
| Book ID | 24762 |
Description
Original blue cloth, xlix+436pp. Spine sunned and a little marked. Otherwise appears unused; internally crisp and clean.
Spine sunned and a little marked. Otherwise appears unused; internally crisp and clean.
Contrary to received opinion at the time, the author here promotes the idea of 'American' pronunciation being a variant rather than sub-standard usage. Harold Palmer, regarded as the founder of applied linguistics as a discipline, was an English linguist, phonetician and pioneer in the field of English language learning and teaching.
