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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2010
The following two texts were published by the predecessor of our journal over half a century ago and illustrate the characteristic nature of its publications at that time.
1 John Cunnison Catford (known as ‘Ian’; 1917–2009), studied phonetics with Daniel Jones, Pierre Fouché and Marguerite Durand. He founded the School of Applied Linguistics in Edinburgh in the early 1950s. In 1964 he was invited to the University of Michigan, where he headed the English Language Institute and the Laboratory of Communication Studies until his retirement in 1985.
2 Eli Fischer-Jørgensen (1911–2010) was a member of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen from 1933. She subsequently studied phonetics and became Denmark's first Professor of Phonetics at the University of Copenhagen.
3 Johanna Geertruida Talma-Schilthuis (1901–1984) studied with Daniel Jones in 1921. In 1933 she co-authored A Dutch Phonetic Reader (E. E. Quick and J. Schilthuis, London University Press). A recording of an interview (1984) with her in which she discusses her experiences in Daniel Jones's department will shortly be placed in the British Library Sound Archive.
