Professor John Wells

Emeritus Professor of Phonetics, UCL

My daily phonetic blog (weekdays only)

Blog archive, 2006 – Feb 2009

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Prof. J.C. Wells
Department of Phonetics and Linguistics
University College London
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
 
tel. +44 (0)20 8542 0302 (home)
fax +44 (0)20 8715 4010 (home)
email:

last revised 2009 March 29

• authorship, publications:
  • Longman Pronunciation Dictionary³, 2008
  • English Intonation: an introduction, CUP, 2006
  • Publications readable on-line
  • other publications
• academic:
  • curriculum vitae
  • photos of my visits to India 1998, China 2000, Japan 2000, Greece 2001, Korea 2002, China 2004, and China and Japan 2007
  • publicity photos
• research:
  • Estuary English
  • SAMPA (e-mailable substitute phonetic character set)
  • Unicode and phonetic symbols
    • Put phonetic symbols in your Word document. For students and anyone else interested. 2002
    • The IPA and Unicode. Displaying IPA symbols, inserting them in web documents, Unicode reference numbers. 2000 with later updates.
    • Eureka by Dermod Quirke and Brian Holser - keyboarding exotic Unicode characters, 2001
    • Eureka-IPA by JCW - extending Q & H's ideas to facilitate the keyboarding of Unicode IPA symbols, 2001
• teaching (no longer):
  • Phonetic symbols for English
  • MA in Phonetics
    • Reading list
  • PLINP201 Phonology of English
  • PLINX202 English accents
• Esperanto:
  • vortaro-blogo
  • about Esperanto
  • Londona Esperanto-Klubo
  • Esperanto Assn of Britain
  • promotion video (in Esperanto, with English subtitles)
  • Esperanto special characters in Windows | Esperanto-literoj en Windows
  • miaj verkoj legeblaj en la TTT - plej lastaj:
    • La frazmelodio en internacia perspektivo, malneto de prelego por IKU Roterdamo, julio 2008
    • Recenzo de Albault kaj Doublet, Trio pri la Tria
    • Esperanto, multlingveco, kaj la interreta revolucio, Herzberg, nov. 2001
    • Supersignoj, trasignoj kaj subsignoj, 1996/2000
    • Personaj rememoroj pri Ivo Lapenna, 2001
    • ankoraŭ aliaj...
• Spelling Society (formerly the Simplified Spelling Society)
  
  • Aims:
    1. To raise awareness of the problems caused by the irregularity of English spelling.
    2. To promote remedies to improve literacy, including spelling reform
  • Masha Bell’s website
• personal:
  • personal history
  • Montserrat:
    • about Montserrat
    • photos: Jun-Jul 2001, Apr 2002, Dec 2002 - Jan 2003, June 2003, June 2004, April 2005, December 2006 - January 2007, November 2007
    • MOPPA
    • Montserrat events in London 2008
    • The other Montserrat (in Spain): photos, 2003
  • running:
    • Windmilers
    • MABAC League