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American Pronunciation (review)

American Pronunciation (review) 238Reviews American Pronunciation. Twelfth Edition, expanded. John S. Kenyon. Edited by Donald M. Lance and Stewart A. Kingsbury. Ann Arbor, MI: George Wahr Pub- lishing Company, 1997. Pp. xl + 410. $45 (hard-cover), $35 (soft-cover). Anew edition of John Samuel Kenyon's American Pronundation, first published in 1924 and last edited by him in 1949 in a tenth edition, is now available in a twelfth, expanded edition by Donald Lance and die late Stewart Kingsbury. The volume is a publication in the series of the American Dialect Society that celebrates that society's first 100 years. This book on the phonetics of English, reprinted in its entirety, includes two new chapters, one on spec- trographic analysis by Donald Lance and Stephen Howie (267-344), die other on American language variation by Donald Lance (345-374). The volume ends widi a reprint of Kenyon's essay, "Cultural Levels and Functional Varieties of English," which first appeared in College English in 1948. There are few, if any, students of American English (lexicographers included) who, in the decades immediately following the appearance of this book, did not find it a useful guide to the nature and details of American English pronunciation. My review will, accordingly, remind http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America Dictionary Society of North America

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238Reviews American Pronunciation. Twelfth Edition, expanded. John S. Kenyon. Edited by Donald M. Lance and Stewart A. Kingsbury. Ann Arbor, MI: George Wahr Pub- lishing Company, 1997. Pp. xl + 410. $45 (hard-cover), $35 (soft-cover). Anew edition of John Samuel Kenyon's American Pronundation, first published in 1924 and last edited by him in 1949 in a tenth edition, is now available in a twelfth, expanded edition by Donald Lance and die late Stewart Kingsbury. The volume is a publication in the series of the American Dialect Society that celebrates that society's first 100 years. This book on the phonetics of English, reprinted in its entirety, includes two new chapters, one on spec- trographic analysis by Donald Lance and Stephen Howie (267-344), die other on American language variation by Donald Lance (345-374). The volume ends widi a reprint of Kenyon's essay, "Cultural Levels and Functional Varieties of English," which first appeared in College English in 1948. There are few, if any, students of American English (lexicographers included) who, in the decades immediately following the appearance of this book, did not find it a useful guide to the nature and details of American English pronunciation. My review will, accordingly, remind

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Published: Apr 4, 1998

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