Excerpt from A Handbook of Phonetics: Including a Popular Exposition of the Principles of Spelling Reform
The results of German phonetic investigation were first popularised in England by Professor Max Muller in the second series of his well-known Let/ares on Lan guage who also made use of various essays by our countryman Mr. A. J. Ellis - the pioneer of scientific phonetics in England.
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Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was a philologist whose work was regarded as seminal. His textbooks on Old English remain standard works. The present work, first published in 1877, inspired European interest in phonetic studies. Sweet presents a general theory of phonetics, illustrated by examples of transcription from various languages.
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