David Abercrombie

List of John Benjamins publications for which David Abercrombie plays a role.

Articles

Abercrombie, David 1993 William Holder and other 17th-century phoneticians Historiographia Linguistica 20:2/3, pp. 309–330 | Article

In spite of inevitable deficiencies in their knowledge, 17th-century writers on phonetics can be said to have succeeded in laying the foundations of a true general phonetics. They include some famous names, such as John Wallis and Isaac Newton, but many of them have remained virtually unknown… read more

Abercrombie, David 1978 Biographical Dictionary of the Phonetic Sciences. Ed. by Arthur J. Bronstein, Lawrence J. Raphael, Cj Stevens Historiographia Linguistica 5:3, pp. 313–318 | Review