Sample articles from Le Maître Phonétique

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Sample articles from Le Maître Phonétique

Daniel Hirst

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Daniel Hirst. Sample articles from Le Maître Phonétique. Journal of the International Phonetic Asso- ciation, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2010, 40 (3), pp.285-295. �10.1017/S0025100310000150�.

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Sample articles from Le Maˆıtre Phon´etique

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Daniel Hirst

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Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS and Universit´e de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France daniel.hirst@lpl-aix.fr 3

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The following two texts were published by the predecessor of our journal over half a century

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ago and illustrate the characteristic nature of its publications at that time.

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The journal, which first appeared in 1886 under the title The Phonetic Teacher /Fon etik Ÿ

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Tˆıtcer/, was renamed Le Maˆıtre Phon´etique /l

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mE…tr

ə

f

ɔ

netik/ in 1889. In 1971, after

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a lengthy debate with its readers, the journal was renamed Journal of the International

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Phonetic Association. Le Maˆıtre Phon´etique was edited by Paul Passy until 1927, when he

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was succeeded by Daniel Jones. It originally appeared in four issues a year, reduced to two a

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year from 1942.

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The official language of the journal was French, so the list of contents was given in that

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language, although by the time of our two samples, a large number of the papers, like these

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two, were in English. With a few exceptions, the contributions were written in a phonetic

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transcription of the author’s choosing – often to reflect his or her linguistic background. It is

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to be noted that, unlike modern practice, the phonetic transcription is accompanied by normal

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punctuation, and also that all proper names are transcribed orthographically.

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The journal published general articles (articles de fond /artiklə də fɔ˜ /), reviews (comptes

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rendus /k

ɔ˜

tra

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dy/) and specimens of phonetic transcription of different languages (sp´ecimens

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/spesimEn/), as well as material for students (partie des ´el`eves /parti dez elE…v/) and

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administrative material (partie administrative /parti administrati…v/).

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Our first text, entitled ‘On the classification of stop consonants’, is from the 1939 January–

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March issue (vol. 65) and is an example of the article de fond type of contribution. It was

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written by J. C. Catford.

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The second text, entitled ‘Dutch’, is from the 1948 January–June issue (vol. 89), and

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illustrates the sp´ecimen type of contribution. It was written by Eli Fischer-Jørgensen

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and J. G.

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Talma-Schilthuis.

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The description is brief compared to current practice, with, for example,

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no list of words illustrating the sounds. Unlike many of the sp´ecimen contributions which

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(still today) traditionally illustrate their description with a reading of Aesop’s fable ‘The North

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Wind and the Sun’, this contribution gives a transcription of a recording of colloquial speech,

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a telephone conversation between two Dutch women. In the transcription, unlike in the texts

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of the articles, proper names are also transcribed phonetically, preceded by the symbol /

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1John Cunnison Catford (known as ‘Ian’; 1917–2009), studied phonetics with Daniel Jones, Pierre Fouche⁄ and Marguerite Durand. He founded the School of Applied Linguistics in Edinburgh in the early 1950s.

In 1964 he was invited to the University of Michigan, where he headed the English Language Institute and the Laboratory of Communication Studies until his retirement in 1985.

2Eli Fischer-Jørgensen (1911–2010) was a member of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen from 1933.

She subsequently studied phonetics and became Denmark’s first Professor of Phonetics at the University of Copenhagen.

3Johanna Geertruida Talma-Schilthuis (1901–1984) studied with Daniel Jones in 1921.

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