Transcription of GLOSSARY – A LITTLE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PHONETICS
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GLOSSARY – A LITTLE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PHONETICS
GLOSSARY A LITTLE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PHONETICS This reference material has had a varied life. It first appeared as one volume of a series of LITTLE books edited by David Crystal and published by Penguin; all the book titles began with Introducing .. , so this one was Introducing PHONETICS . It was published in 1992, but not long afterwards Penguin killed off the series. I claimed the copyright, and after revising the text I put it on my personal web-site at the University of Reading for general access and gave it the title A LITTLE ENCYCLOPAEDIA of PHONETICS this pretentious title with its archaic ae spelling of ENCYCLOPAEDIA was intended as a joke. Many people told me they used the book, but it was not easy to move from place to place in the text. When the website for the Fourth Edition of my english PHONETICS and Phonology was being constructed, my editorial colleagues at Cambridge University Press and I decided that an improved version of the ENCYCLOPAEDIA would be a useful addition as a GLOSSARY of technical terms, and we now refer to the work as the GLOSSARY .
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