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Making a transcription: The evolution of A. J. Ellis's Palaeotype

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

John K. Local
John K. Local
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A. J. Ellis's encyclopaedic work On Early English Pronunciation (henceforth EEP) now receives remarkably little serious attention from linguists. This has not always been the case. As long ago as 1877 Sweet hailed EEP as a ‘great work’ which ‘inaugurated the scientific historical study of English pronunciation.’ (viii) Other commentators admittedly have not been so complimentary. Wright, discussing the transcription of dialects in Part V of EEP, was prompted to write that ‘If his rendering … of other dialect speakers is as inaccurate as that of the Windhill dialect, the value of these tests for phonetic and philological purposes is not very great.’ (1892: 174) Orton (1949) found the work ‘defective and unreliable’. Dieth (1946) was equally critical.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , June 1983 , pp. 2 - 12
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1983

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