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A. C. Gimson, JIPA and the m.f.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2005

Jack Windsor Lewis
Affiliation:
Thorner, West Yorkshire, UKwww.yek.me.uk, jwl@yek.me.uk

Abstract

A. C. Gimson was editor of Le Maître Phonétique (m.f.), which evolved into the Journal of the International Phonetic Association, for 25 years from 1950. Besides his general editorial supervision, he provided those publications with two of his own early articles, over 30 reviews and numbers of congratulatory and obituary tributes. He gradually phased out the short transcribed passages of various languages he and others had provided for learners and teachers: they had become a less significant element among IPA adherents. His encouragement of progressively more substantial contributions to the pages of the m.f. inevitably led to its 1970 major transformation, with normal orthography, into the present Journal of the International Phonetic Association.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Journal of the International Phonetic Association 2005

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