{"id":358,"date":"2007-05-11T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=358"},"modified":"2007-05-11T23:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T22:49:00","slug":"phonetic-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/phonetic-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonetic survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bullfrog117\/469449217\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/179\/469449217_4636671c01_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bullfrog117\/469449217\/\">Phonetics 101 1<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/bullfrog117\/\">Bullfrog117<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>John Wells is preparing the 3rd edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Longman-Pronunciation-Dictionary-J-C-Wells\/dp\/0582364671\/\">Longman Pronunciation Dictionary<\/a> (see more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phon.ucl.ac.uk\/home\/wells\/blog.htm\">on his blog<\/a>).  For that purpose, he&#8217;s asking native speakers of English to complete <a href=\"http:\/\/survey.pearsoncmg.com\/PRONS07.htm\">this survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite an interesting one, and I recommend reading it, even if you (like me) are not qualified to complete it.<\/p>\n<p>Question 20, alas, doesn&#8217;t work for speakers of Scottish English.  I&#8217;m a bit surprised he hasn&#8217;t spotted that himself, given he&#8217;s the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Accents-English-2-British-Isles\/dp\/0521285402\/\">Accents of English<\/a> (which I can highly recommend).<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phonetics 101 1 Originally uploaded by Bullfrog117. John Wells is preparing the 3rd edition of the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (see more on his blog). For that purpose, he&#8217;s asking native speakers of English to complete this survey. It&#8217;s quite an interesting one, and I recommend reading it, even if you (like me) are not qualified to complete it. Question 20, alas, doesn&#8217;t work for speakers of Scottish English. I&#8217;m a bit surprised he hasn&#8217;t spotted that himself, given he&#8217;s the author of Accents of English (which I [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}