{"id":1716,"date":"2009-11-03T18:18:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T18:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2009-11-03T18:18:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T18:18:16","slug":"catford-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/catford-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Catford has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=thewidblo-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=0199246351\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" align=\"left\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>John Wells blogged today that the Scottish phonetician <a href=\"http:\/\/phonetic-blog.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/ian-catford.html\">Ian Catford has died<\/a>.  There&#8217;s a detailed obituary <a href=\"http:\/\/obits.mlive.com\/obituaries\/annarbor\/obituary.aspx?n=john-c-catford-ian&#038;pid=134991025\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I never met the man, but I love his <i>Practical Introduction to Phonetics<\/i>, which is a great introduction to articulatory phonetics, teaching you how to produce all sorts of speech sounds.<\/p>\n<p>All high schools should teach all their students phonetics like this &ndash; I&#8217;m sure it would improve the pronunciation of foreign languages immensely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wells blogged today that the Scottish phonetician Ian Catford has died. There&#8217;s a detailed obituary here. I never met the man, but I love his Practical Introduction to Phonetics, which is a great introduction to articulatory phonetics, teaching you how to produce all sorts of speech sounds. All high schools should teach all their students phonetics like this &ndash; I&#8217;m sure it would improve the pronunciation of foreign languages immensely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}