Abercrombie, David

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Name (Latin)
Abercrombie, David
Date of birth
1909-12-19
Date of death
1992-07-04
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 93893291
Wikidata: Q5230574
Library of congress: n 82082918
Sources of Information
  • His Isaac Pitman, a pioneer in the scientific study of language ... 1937.
  • LCN

Wikipedia description:

David Abercrombie (19 December 1909 – 4 July 1992) was a British phonetician who established the Department of Phonetics at the University of Edinburgh. He was a student of J. R. Firth and Daniel Jones. He retired as Professor of Phonetics in 1980 and died in Edinburgh at the age of 82.

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