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1530
Palsgrave's 'L'ecslaircissement de la langue francoyse'
1568
Sir Thomas Smith's 'De Recta et Emendata Linguae Anglicae Dialogus' published
1569
John Hart's 'Orthographie' published
1621
Gil's ' Logonomia Anglica'
1644
Hodges' 'The English Primrose' published
1653
Hodges' 'Most plain direction for true-writing'
1653
John Wallis's 'Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae' published
1659
Jones's 'Rationality of the art of speaking' published
1665
Price's 'The vocal organ' published
1668
Bishop John Wilkins' 'Essay' published
1669
Holder's 'Elements of speech' published
1674
Coles' "The Compleat English Schoolmaster"
1685
Cooper's 'Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae' published
1687
Cooper's 'The English Teacher' published
1709
Dyche's "A Guide to the English Tongue"
1723
Dyche's "A Dictionary"
1763
Sheridan's "A Course of Lectures on Elocution"
1773
Tucker's "Vocal Sounds"
1774
Walker's plan for "Pronouncing Dictionary"
1775
Steele's 'An Essay'
1791
John Walker publishes 'Critical Pronouncing Dictionary'
1848
A. J. Ellis's "Essentials of Phonetics"
1854
"Poor little H" pamphlet
1869
Ellis's 'On Early English Pronunciation'
1877
Sweet's 'Handbook of Phonetics' published
1877
Sweet's suggestion that native varieties of English would become mutually-unitelligble
1886
Phonetic Teachers' Association founded
1886
Jespersen proposes establishing a phonetic alphabet
1888
First version of IPA published
1890
Ellis' "English Dialects: their sounds and homes"
1898
1st volume of Joseph Wright's 'English Dialect Dictionary'
1908
Sweet's 'The Sounds of English'
1909
Jones's 'The Pronunciation of English' published
1913
Jones's 'A phonetic dictionary of the English Language' published
1917
Jones's 'The English Pronouncing Dictionary' published
1918
Jones's 'Outline of English Phonetics' published
1922
Palmer's 'English Intonation, with Systematic Exercises'
1926
BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English founded
1926
Palmer's "A Dictionary of English Pronunciation"
1928
"Broadcast English" published
1929
I C Ward's 'The Phonetics of English'
1931
2nd edition of "Broadcast English" published
1948
Orton & Dieth's survey of English dialects
1951
Abercrombie coins the term 'accent bar'
1957
Dobson's 'English Pronunciation 1500-1700'
1968
Chomsky & Halle's 'Sound Pattern of English'
1972
Lewis's 'Concise Pronouncing Dictionary of British and American English'
1977
Annan Report on the future of broadcasting
1977
Eckmann's "Markedness Differential Hypothesis"
1978
Gimson's rudimentary international pronunciation
1984
Rosewarne coins term 'Estuary English'
2000
Jenkin's "The Phonology of English as an International Language"