He wrote The Pronounciation of English in 1909 and The outline of English Phonetics in 1918. This is considered to be the first comprehensive description of the [received pronunciation]?. He uses the term phoneme in the current sense. |
He wrote The Pronounciation of English in 1909 and The outline of English Phonetics in 1918. This is considered to be the first comprehensive description of Received Pronunciation. He uses the term phoneme in the current sense. |
Source: R. E. Asher, The encyclopedia of language and linguistics, Pergamon press, 1994 |