Dennis Butler Fry (3 November 1907 – 21 March 1983) was a British linguist and Professor of Experimental Phonetics at
University College London
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. Through experiments he conducted in the 1950s and 1960s, Fry demonstrated that
lexical stress
In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence. That emphasis is typically caused by such properties as i ...
correlated with
loudness
In acoustics, loudness is the subjectivity, subjective perception of sound pressure. More formally, it is defined as, "That attribute of auditory sensation in terms of which sounds can be ordered on a scale extending from quiet to loud". The rel ...
,
pitch, and
length
Length is a measure of distance. In the International System of Quantities, length is a quantity with dimension distance. In most systems of measurement a base unit for length is chosen, from which all other units are derived. In the Interna ...
of the affected
vowel
A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Vowels are one of the two principal classes of speech sounds, the other being the consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness and also in quantity (leng ...
.
Books
* Fry, D.B. (ed.) (1976). ''Acoustic phonetics: a course of basic readings''. Cambridge: CUP
* Fry, D.B. (1977). ''Homo loquens: man as a talking animal''. Cambridge: CUP
* Fry, D.B. (1979). ''The physics of speech''. Cambridge: CUP
* Fry, D.B. and Kostić, Đ. (1939). ''A Serbo-Croat phonetic reader''. London: University of London Press
* Whetnall, E. and Fry, D.B. (1964). ''The deaf child''. London: Heinemann
* Whetnall, E. and Fry, D.B. (1970). ''Learning to hear''. London: Heinemann
See also
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Daniel Jones (phonetician)
Daniel Jones (12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was a London-born British phonetician who studied under Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne (University of Paris). He was head of the Depar ...
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A. C. Gimson
Alfred Charles "Gim" Gimson (; 7 June 1917 – 22 April 1985) was an English phonetician.
Life
Gimson was educated at Emanuel School London, and University College London, where later in 1966 he became Professor of Phonetics, and in 1971 head of ...
References
1907 births
1983 deaths
Linguists from England
British phonologists
Phoneticians
Linguists of English
Academics of University College London
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