J.C.Wells - selected publications

Selected publications

Wells, J.C., 1962. A study of the formants of the pure vowels of British English. Unpublished MA thesis, University of London. Can be read on-line.
Wells, J.C., 1962. A specimen of British English. Maître Phonétique 117.2-5.
Wells, J.C., 1967. Specimen: Jamaican Creole. Maître Phonétique 127.5.
Wells, J.C., 1968. Nonprevocalic intrusive r in urban Hampshire. Progress Report, UCL Phonetics Laboratory 56-57.
Wells, J.C., 1970. Local accents in England and Wales. J.Ling. 6.231-252.
Wells, J.C. and G. Colson, 1971. Practical Phonetics. London: Pitman. ISBN 0 273 43949 9.
Wells, J.C., 1973. Jamaican pronunciation in London. Publications of the Philological Society xxv. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0 631 14730 6. (This is a revised version of my PhD dissertation, 1971.)
Wells, J.C., 1979. Final voicing and vowel length in Welsh. Phonetica 36.4-5.344-360.
Wells, J.C., 1980. The brogue that isn't. JIPA vol. 10 (1980): 74-79. Can be read on-line.
Wells, J.C., 1982 Accents of English. Three volumes + cassette. Cambridge University Press.
Wells, J.C., 1985. English accents in England. In Trudgill, P. (ed.), Language in the British Isles. Cambridge University Press. 55-69.
Wells, J.C., 1985. English pronunciation and its dictionary representation. In Ilson, R. (ed.), Dictionaries, lexicography and language learning. Oxford: Pergamon.
Wells, J.C.,1990 Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Longman. (ESU Duke of Edinburgh's Prize.)
Wells, J.C. (pronunciation editor), 1993. Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words. Edited by John Ayto. Oxford: Helicon.
Wells, J.C., 1994 (contributor to) Longman Interactive English Dictionary. CD-ROM, incorporating a spoken version of the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. ACT Multimedia/ Harlow: Longman, ISBN 0 582 236940.
Wells, J.C., 1994. The Cockneyfication of RP? In G. Melchers and N-L. Johannesson (ed.), Nonstandard Varieties of Language. Papers from the Stockholm Symposium 11-13 April 1991. 198-205. Stockholm Studies in English LXXXIV. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International.
Wells, J.C., 1995 [i.e. 1994]. New syllabic consonants in English. In J. Windsor Lewis (ed.), Studies in General and English Phonetics. Essays in honour of Prof. J.D. O'Connor. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-08068-1.
Wells, J.C., 1995. Age grading in English pronunciation preferences. Proceedings of ICPhS 95, Stockholm, vol. 3:696-699.
Wells, J.C., 1996. Why phonetic transcription is important. Malsori (Journal of the Phonetic Society of Korea) 31-32:239-242.
Wells, J.C., 1997. What's happening to Received Pronunciation? English Phonetics (English Phonetic Society of Japan), 1:13-23.
Wells, J.C., 1997. Our changing pronunciation. Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society xix.42-48
Wells, J.C., 1997. One of three named "main technical authors" for Part IV, Spoken language reference materials. In Gibbon, D., Moore, R., and Winski, R. (editors), Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.
Wells, J.C., 1997, Whatever happened to Received Pronunciation?. in Medina Casado, Carmelo & Soto Palomo, Concepción (eds.), II Jornadas de Estudios Ingleses, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. p.19-28.
Wells, J.C., 1997. 'Is RP turning into Cockney?' in Dvorzhetska M.P. and A.A. Kalita (ed.), Studies in Communicative Phonetics and Foreign Language Teaching Methodology, Kyiv State Linguistic University, Ukraine, p. 10-15.
Wells, J.C., 1999. "Which pronunciation do you prefer?". IATEFL Issues 149, June-July 1999, "The Changing Language", 10-11.
Wells, J.C., 1999. Pronunciation preferences in British English: a new survey. Proc. of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, 1999.
Wells, J.C., 2000. Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Second edition. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. ISBN 0 582 36468 X (cased edition), 0 582 36467 1 (paperback edition).
Wells, J.C., 2000. British English pronunciation preferences: a changing scene. Journal of the International Phonetic Association (1999) 29 (1): 33-50.
Wells, J.C., 2000. Overcoming phonetic interference. English Phonetics (Journal of the English Phonetic Society of Japan), 3.9-21.
Wells, J.C., 2001. Orthographic diacritics. Language Problems and Language Planning 24.3.
Wells, J.C., 2002. John Wells. In: Brown, K. and Law, V. (eds.), Linguistics in Britain: personal histories. Publications of the Philological Society, 36. Oxford: Blackwell.
Wells, John, 2002. Accents in Britain today. In Ewa Waniek-Klimczak and Patrick James Melia (eds.), Accents and Speech in Teaching English Phonetics and Phonology. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 2002 [2003]. ISBN 3-631-39616-3, pb. Pages 9-17.
Wells, John, 2003. Phonetic research by written questionnaire. In Solé, M.J., Recasens D. and Romero J. (eds.), Proc. 15th Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, R.4.7:4
Wells, John, 2003. Phonetic symbols in word procesing and on the web. In Solé, M.J., Recasens D. and Romero J. (eds.), Proc. 15th Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, S.2.8:6
Wells, John, 2005a. Goals in teaching English pronunciation. In Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, K. & Przedlacka, J. (eds), English pronunciation models: a changing scene. Bern: Peter Lang
Wells, John, 2005b. Abbreviatory conventions in pronunciation dictionaries. In Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, K. & Przedlacka, J. (eds), English pronunciation models: a changing scene. Bern: Peter Lang
Wells, John, 2006a,b,c,d,e. Encyclopedia articles: Phonetic transcription and analysis, Diacritics, Esperanto, Biographical notes on D.B. Fry, A.C. Gimson. In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier.
Wells, John, 2006f. English Intonation: an introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wells, J.C., 2008. Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Third edition with CD. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. ISBN 978-1-4058-8117-3 (cased), 978-1-4058-8118-0 (paperback).

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