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

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 until… read more | Article

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

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