The Real Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel Jones

Contents
Foreword
List of illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 In the days of his youth (1881?1903)
	1.1. Birth
	1.2. Family background
	1.3. Ludgrove Preparatory School
	1.4. Radley College
	1.5. University College School
	1.6. Cambridge and after
	1.7. William Tilly
	1.8. Jones at Institut Tilly
2 An aptitude for phonetics (1904?07)
	2.1. A timely illness
	2.2. The Motte family
	2.3. Paul Passy
	2.4. Passy?s classes and the IPA examination
	2.5. Phonetics at University College
	2.6. Joining the IPA and early publications
	2.7. Phonetic transcriptions of English prose
	2.8. Le Ma?tre phon?tique 1907
	2.9. Henry Sweet
	2.10. Jones?s first encounters with Sweet
	2.11. ?Implosives and clicks? and the Organic Alphabet
	2.12. Provost Gregory Foster
3 Early years at University College London (1908?10)
	3.1. Teaching at University College 1908?09
	3.2. Chaucer and Shakespeare
	3.3. Intonation curves
	3.4. The pronunciation of English
	3.5. Articles in 1908?09
	3.6. Foundation of the Simplified Spelling Society
	3.7. Grenoble
	3.8. Discussions with Palmer
	3.9. Chindau
	3.10. Elections in the IPA
	3.11. Teaching at University College 1909?10
4 Building up the Department (I911?14)
	4.1. The links with Paul Passy
	4.2. Cyrille Motte
	4.3. A wedding in Brittany
	4.4. Return to London
	4.5. Departmental status
	4.6. The Paris Lecture
	4.7. Tours of Scandinavia and India 1912?13
	4.8. The death of Sweet
	4.9. Bernard Shaw and Pygmalion
	4.10. The Simplified Spelling Society
	4.11. The battles with Bridges
5 Studying spoken language
	5.1. Phonetic readings in English
	5.2. The Cantonese phonetic reader and the London Phonetic Reader series
	5.3. The Michaelis?Jones Phonetic dictionary
	5.4. Minor publications 1911?14
	5.5. The IPA Principles
	5.6. Work for the IPA 1911?14
	5.7. Transcription in Le Ma?tre phon?tique
	5.8. University College 1912?14
	5.9. Jones at Oxford
	5.10. Stephen Jones and the Laboratory
	5.11. The outbreak of war
6 Not adversely affected by the war (1914?17)
	6.1. Adjustments to wartime
	6.2. The Department in the early war years
	6.3. A readership
	6.4. The appointment of Harold Palmer
	6.5. Death of Jones?s father
	6.6. The Jones family
	6.7. Solomon Plaatje
	6.8. The Sechuana reader
	6.9. Jones?s methods of linguistic fieldwork
7 A sort of mission
	7.1. Ripman?s influence
	7.2. The English pronouncing dictionary
	7.3. The Cardinal Vowel model of vowel description
	7.4. The work of the Department in the later war years
	7.5. The Philological Society Lecture and the term ?phoneme?
	7.6. Jones?s experimental interests and the Cardinal Vowels
	7.7. Work of the Department 1917?18
	7.8. Lilias Armstrong and H.S. Perera
	7.9. The birth of Jones?s son
	7.10. The idea of an Institute of Phonetics
	7.11. The coming of peace
8 The Outline
	8.1. Introduction
	8.2. Opening chapters
	8.3. Classification of consonants and vowels
	8.4. Description of consonants
	8.5. Description of vowels
	8.6. Supra-segmental features
	8.7. Intonation
	8.8 The kymograph
	8.9 Appendices
9 A Professor of Phonetics (1919?21)
	9.1. Work of the Department 1919?21
	9.2. Ida Ward and H?l?ne Coustenoble
	9.3. The proposed Institute of Phonetics
	9.4. A Colloquial Sinhalese Reader
	9.5. Dorothy Parkinson and Arthur Lloyd James
	9.6. Unpublished lectures on Italian, Spanish and French
	9.7. Health problems
	9.8. A Professor of Phonetics
10 They do nothing but phonetics (1921?30)
	10.1. The later career
	10.2. The Department in the early twenties
	10.3. Vacation courses
	10.4. Family and personal life 1921?30
	10.5. The pronunciation of Russian
	10.6. Shorter publications and revisions 1921?30
	10.7. Colloquial French
	10.8. Involvement in theosophy
	10.9. The IPA and Le Ma?tre phon?tique in the 1920s
	10.10. Otto Jespersen and the Copenhagen Conference
	10.11. Involvement with the BBC
	10.12. Travels to the USA and elsewhere
	10.13. The Department in the 1920s
	10.14. John Rupert Firth
11 Upstairs and downstairs (1931?39)
	11.1. Changes in University College
	11.2. A house in Gerrards Cross
	11.3. Revision of the Outline and the EPD
	11.4. The phoneme (and the Joneme)
	11.5. Shorter publications
	11.6. Work of the Department in the thirties
	11.7. Upstairs and downstairs
	11.8. Firth?s growing influence
	11.9. Dennis Fry
	11.10. The 1935 Conference
	11.11. The rise and fall of the Simplified Spelling Society
	11.12. Honour and bereavement
	11.13. The IPA in the 1930s
	11.14. The outbreak of war
12 In the Blitz and after (1939?50)
	12.1. The phoney war and evacuation
	12.2. In the Blitz
	12.3. The feud with Firth
	12.4. Return to Gordon Square
	12.5. The Z?rich Lecture and ?The London School of Phonetics?
	12.6. Publications on the phoneme
	12.7. New alphabets
	12.8. The SSS and Bernard Shaw
	12.9. Work for the BBC
	12.10. The IPA and Le Ma?tre phon?tique
	12.11. Final years at University College
	12.12. Retirement
13 Final years
	13.1. Jones in retirement
	13.2. Theosophy and Maud MacCarthy
	13.3. Family life
	13.4. The Phoneme: introduction
	13.5. The Phoneme: opening chapters
	13.6. The Phoneme: aspects of phonemic analysis
	13.7. The Phoneme: suprasegmental features
	13.8. The Phoneme: wider implications
	13.9. Reactions to the Phoneme
	13.10. Revision of the Pronunciation of English
	13.11. Annus mirabilis
	13.12. Shorter publications 1950?60
	13.13. The elder statesman of phonetics
	13.14. Activities in last years
	13.15. The phonetics of Russian
	13.16. Death
14 Jones?s contribution to phonetics and linguistics
	14.1. Introduction
	14.2. Establishing and running the University College Department
	14.3. The International Phonetic Association
	14.4. Other organisational activities
	14.5. Description and teaching of English
	14.6. English as a foreign language
	14.7. Description and teaching of French
	14.8. Ear-training techniques
	14.9. Transcription
	14.10. Jones?s view of phonetics
	14.11. Description of languages other than English
	14.12. Intonation of English
	14.13. Tone languages
	14.14. The Cardinal Vowel system
	14.15. Chaucerian and Shakespearean reconstructions
	14.16. The concept of the phoneme
	14.17. Conclusion
Appendix Historical background
	A.1 The roots of phonetic studies
	A.2. The early development of the English School
	A.3. Britain and America in the nineteenth century
	A.4. Germany and Scandinavia
	A.5. France and Switzerland
	A.6. Eastern Europe
	A.7. Historical surveys of nineteenth and early twentieth century phonetics/phonology
Examination Papers
International Phonetic Alphabet charts
Notes
List of interviews
A chronological bibliography of the publications of Daniel Jones
References
Index