biography
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Ellis, Alexander John
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original surname Sharpe
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| lived:
| (1814–90)
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| biography:
| British philologist. He studied at Cambridge, wrote much on mathematical, musical, and philological questions, and did more than any other scholar to advance the scientific study of phonetics, of early English pronunciation, and of existing English dialects. He arranged, with Sir Isaac Pitman, a system of printing called phonotype, which aimed at the accurate representation of sounds in print, and published Fonetic Frend (1849). His major work was Early English Pronunciation (1869–89). |
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