Roger Kingdon 1891–1984
An appreciation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10262641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jack Windsor Lewis (0000-0001-9483-912X, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 80-85 |
| Publication date | 1984-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-1003 • E-ISSN: 1475-3502 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0025100300002814 |
| OpenAlex | W2127732577 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The main facts of Roger Kingdon's biography may be found at pp. 57–8 of Vol. 1 No. 2 of this Journal of December 1971. His phonetic interests were wide. His earliest contributions to these pages, in 1939, were Specimens of ‘General South West English’ and ‘South Hams Dialect’ (pp. 9, 10) and ‘East Devon’ (p. 50). For the first of these, wishing to distinguish three kinds of r-sound, a fricative, a strong retroflex and a weak retroflex, he introduced the completely new symbol . In 1973 this form was officially adopted into the Association's alphabet. His most modest contributions to these pages were two paragraphs of Spanish (a language of which he had a truly impressive command) in narrow transcription to the Students' Corner series again in 1939 (pp. 16 and 57). In that same fateful year he published his most important contribution to Le Maître Phonétique ‘Tonetic Stress Marks for English’ (pp. 60–4) which opened up a new era in English intonation studies
Alphabet · Art history · Biography · Intonation (linguistics · Linguistics · Symbol (formal · Transcription (linguistics · Classics · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research
| Highly cited | No |
|---|