Arthur Lloyd James
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Welsh phonetician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arthur Lloyd James was a Welsh phonetician who was a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the linguistic adviser to the British Broadcasting Corporation. His research was mainly on the phonetics of English and French, but he also worked on the phonetics of Hausa and Yoruba. He killed himself while a patient at the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, where he was committed after killing his wife, the violinist Elsie Winifred Owen, in 1941.
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- The broadcast word (1935) (8)
- Our spoken language (1938) (7)
- The ABC of basic English (in basic) (1932) (4)
- Recommendations to announcers regarding certain words of doubtful pronunciation (2)
- Standards in Speech (1933) (2)
- The Tones of Yoruba (1923) (2)
- Recommendations to announcers regarding the pronunciation of some British family names and titles (1939) (1)
- Recommendations to announcers regarding the pronunciation of some English place names (1)
- A basic phonetic reader (1937) (1)
- Linguaphone conversational course : English (1934) (0)
- ABC du Basic English : the ABC of Basic English (1940) (0)
- THE SPOKEN WORD (1936) (0)
- Yoruba Grammar . By de Gaye & Beecroft. Kegan Paul, London. C.M.S. Bookshop, Lagos. 3s. 6d. net each. (1923) (0)
- The Pronunciation of Mabathi (1928) (0)
- El ABC del Inglés básico : the ABC of basic English (1944) (0)
- A Note on the Pronunciation of Hausa (1925) (0)
- Basic English ABC : the ABC of basic English (1940) (0)
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