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If I were asked how long the modern study of English pronunciation has been around, I would definitely refer back to Daniel Jones (1881–1967). The British phonetician is mostly remembered for his cardinal vowel diagram, a version of which is still used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA, 1999). However, Daniel Jones’s work on English pronunciation opened the door to many other researchers. One hundred years ago, Jones wrote his Outline of English Phonetics (OEP), often considered to be ‘the most influential book in the history of English phonetics’ (Windsor-Lewis, 1980, p. 343). Although the first edition was published in 1918, the work had been in press in July 1914, but could not be published until the end of the First World War (Collins and Mees, 2001). Jones managed, however, to publish his English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD), a work that complements OEP, a year before, in 1917.1
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Mompean, J.A. (2015). Introduction. In: Mompean, J.A., Fouz-González, J. (eds) Investigating English Pronunciation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137509437_1
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