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Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 6:1 (1979) ► pp.47–56

British Phonetics in the 1880s

The Work of James Lecky

| University of Glasgow

The work of the Irish-born phonetician James Lecky (1855–90) has been unjustly neglected. A summary is given of his life and work, especially his work in phonetics, which covered descriptive phonetics, verse rhythm and phonetic notation.

Published online: 1 January 1979
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