II.5. THE LONDON PHONOLOGICAL SCHOOL
There is a long tradition o f phonetic and phonological stud
ies in England. One o f the first linguists who made a serious study
in English phonetics was Henry Sweet. He distinguished broad
and narrow transcriptions and gave the classification o f English
vowels and consonants in his “Handbook o f Phonetics” (Oxford,
1877).
Under “The London Phonological School” we mean the
theory and methods o f phonetic and phonological analysis pro
posed by the British linguists. This school is represented by J.R.
Firth, Daniel Jones, D. Abercrombie, I. Ward, L. Armstrong, D.
B. Fry, H. Kingdon, J.D. O ’Connor, A.C. Gimson. The British
linguists presented original idea on phonemic and prosodic analy
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