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| Year: | 1877 | ||||
| Short description: | Sweet's 'Handbook of Phonetics' published | ||||
| Medium description: | Henry Sweet's 'Handbook of Phonetics' published. Included a proposal for spelling reform. Howatt (1984) states that Sweet 'drew together' the influences of A. J. Ellis and Alexander Melville Bell, in their work on phonetics, and Johan Storm, in his work on the the nature of speech. | ||||
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- Howatt, A (1984). A History of English Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.44]
- Robins, R (1997). A Short History of Linguistics 4th ed. Harlow: Longman [p.52]
- Howatt, A (1982) 'Language teaching must start afresh!'. ELT Journal Volume 36/4 pp.263-268 [p.453]
- Howatt, A (1984) Language teaching traditions: 1884 revisited. ELT Journal Volume 38/4 pp.279-282 [p.454]