J.C.Wells

Publications of mine you can read on-line (in English)

• A study of the formants of the pure vowels of British English. My MA thesis, 1962.
• The brogue that isn't. Do Montserratians speak with an Irish lilt? Article published in Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1980.
• Syllabification and allophony. Article published in Susan Ramsaran (ed.), Studies in the pronunciation of English, A commemorative volume in honour of A.C. Gimson (London and New York: Routledge, 1990), pages 76-86.
• A.C. Gimson: an obituary 1992.
• Transcribing Estuary English. How can we make a phonetic transcription of London-area speech? Article published in Speech Hearing and Language, 1994.
• Computer-coding the IPA: a proposed extension of SAMPA. Web document, revised version 1995.
• Why phonetic transcription is important. Article published in Malsori, Korea, 1996.
• What is Estuary English? Article published in English Teaching Professional, 1997. See further items on the Estuary English page.
• Our changing pronunciation. Talk given to the Yorkshire Dialect Society, 1997. (Complete text.)
• Our changing pronunciation. Talk given to the British Assn. for the Advancement of Science, 1997. (Same title, different talk, summary only.)
• Whatever happened to Received Pronunciation?. Article published in Medina Casado, Carmelo & Soto Palomo, Concepción (eds.), II Jornadas de Estudios Ingleses, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. (1997) p.19-28.
• J.D.O'Connor: an obituary. Published in The Guardian newspaper, 1998
• Gordon Arnold: an obituary. 2000.
• British English pronunciation preferences: a changing scene. Journal of the International Phonetic Association (1999) 29 (1): 33-50
• Overcoming phonetic interference. Article published in English Phonetics, Journal of the English Phonetic Society of Japan, 3.9-21 (2000).
• Orthographic diacritics. Article published in Language Problems and Language Planning 24.3 (2001). Was originally in Esperanto ("Supersignoj, trasignoj kaj subsignoj", below).
• IPA transcription systems for English. An answer to a FAQ. Feb. 2001
• Phonics and accents of English: a view from phonetics. Talk given at the LAGB, Leeds, 6 April 2001
• Welsh phonetics: a preface. From Ball and Williams, Welsh Phonetics, 2001.
• Pronunciation research by written questionnaire. Paper presented at Peter Ladefoged's Symposium on Phonetic Fieldwork at the Int'l Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Barcelona, August 2003).
• Phonetic symbols in word processing and on the web. Paper presented at the Int'l Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Barcelona, August 2003).
• English accents and their implications for spelling reform. Edited version (2003) of a talk given to the Simplified Spelling Society in 1986.
• Articles for an encyclopedia:
  • Phonetic transcription and analysis,
  • Diacritics,
  • Esperanto (or as Word doc),
  • Biographical notes on D.B. Fry, A.C. Gimson
• Articles from Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, K. & Przedlacka, J. (eds), English pronunciation models: a changing scene (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005):
  • Goals in teaching English pronunciation
  • Abbreviatory conventions in pronunciation dictionaries

Miaj verkoj legeblaj en la TutTera Teksaĵo (en Esperanto)

• Hiperteksto kaj la Tut-Tera Teksaĵo. Prelego farita en Adelajdo, 1997.
• Supersignoj, trasignoj kaj subsignoj. Prelego farita en Prago, 1996; poste artikolo aperinta en Festlibro por André Albault, 2000.
• Personaj rememoroj pri Ivo Lapenna. Artikolo aperinta en volumo redaktita de Carlo Minnaja, 2001
• Esperanto, multlingvismo kaj la reta revolucio. Prelego farita en Herzberg am Harz, 2001.
• Recenzo de Albault kaj Doublet, Trio pri la Tria

Fy nghyhoeddiadau y gallwch eu darllen ar y we (yn Gymraeg)

• Am yr iaith Esperanto. Erthygl wedi'i thynnu o Geiriadur Esperanto/Kimra Vortaro, J.C.Wells, 1985; Llundain: Group Five