1st Edition
The Pronunciation of Standard English in America and American English
646 Pages
by
Routledge
648 Pages
by
Routledge
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Part of the series on American English from 1781 to 1921, Volume VIII includes a guide to the phonetics of American English with the purpose to provide a rational method of examining pronunciation, the most important of the practical aspects of speech. Also included is American English (1921) that reflects the progressive development of the author’s ideas on the subject over a forty-year... Read more
Preface; Chapter II Description of Sounds; Chapter III Sounds and Their Occurrence; S148 Foreword; Chapter 2 Ten Important Treatises; Chapter 3 Exotic Americanisms; Chapter 4 Some Real Americanisms; Chapter 5 Misunderstood and Imaginary Americanisms; Chapter 6 The Bibliography of the Subject;
Biography
George Phillip Krapp was a distinguished philologist and professor of English at Columbia University. Gilbert M. Tucker - from 1897–1911 he was editor-in-chief of this magazine under the title the Country Gentleman. He served as president of the New York State Agricultural Society, and as a trustee of Cornell University from 1905–1906.
