Recent work in experimental phonetics

ABSTRACT IT is now ninety years since Scott with his phonautograph-the precursor of the gramophone-first made traces of the wave forms of speech sounds. The mechanical wave-tracers

progressed and reached their peak of development in the phonodeik of Miller, but they have been largely superseded by electrical recorders. The talking film and the cathode ray oscillograph

have found their way into the phonetics laboratory, and the physicist has been called in to assist the philologist in the scientific study of speech forms. Such a team of workers operating

an experimental phonetics laboratory (such as that of King's College, Newcastle-on-Tyne1) can carry out useful work in the classification not merely of standard English speech forms,

but also of local variants, which may be preserved in the form of gramophone or film records to remain, perhaps as museum pieces, when all speech has been reduced by education and

broadcasting to a dull uniform ‘standard English’. To this end a number of linguists are exploring the country districts of Great Britain, where special forms die hard, with portable

recording equipment, to persuade the older people to “say something into the microphone”. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access

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