The Real Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel Jones

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This volume presents a full-scale biography of Daniel Jones, a preeminent scholar and Britsih phonetician of the early 20th century, and the first linguist to hold a chair at a British university. This book traces Jone’s life and career, including his contacts with other linguists and with figures outside the linguistic world, notably Robert Bridges and George Bernard Shaw.