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William Freeman Twaddell (1906–1982) was a professor of German and linguistics, who worked at
Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
as a
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during the 1950s and 1960s. He also served as president of the
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in 1957.


Biography

Twaddell was born in Rye, New York, in March 22, 1906. He spent his early life in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina. He attended graduate studies at Harvard, and met John Albrecht Walz, then a fellow graduate student, who introduced him to the field of linguistics. In 1926 he graduated from
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. From
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he earned his master's degree in 1927 and he received a doctorate in 1930. In 1929, Twaddell published his first linguistic work, "New Light on Phonetic Change." A few years later, in 1935, he published "On Defining the Phoneme," in the collection "Language Monographs," which is described as being a supplement to ''Language'', Journal of the Linguistics Society of America. Between 1929 and 1946 he worked in the University of Wisconsin. Later, he headed as chairman of the German department of University of Wisconsin. In 1946, he became professor of Brown university of Germanic languages in 1946. In 1960, he founded and headed a separate Linguistic department. In 1963 he published "The English Verb Auxiliaries." Twaddell taught for his entire career of 30 years at Brown University. He died on 1 March 1982.


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Further reading

*"About ELEC in English." ELEC.org. English Language Education Council, n.d. Web. 20 Nov 2013. *AcademicTree.org. LnguisTree. 2013. *Henrichsen, Lynn Earl. Diffusion of Innovations in English Language Teaching: The ELEC Effort in Japan, 1956-1968. 1st ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989. Print. *"Twaddell, W.F.." WorldCat. (2013): n. page. Web. 20 Nov. 2013.

*"Who We Are: Presidents." linguisticsociety.org. Linguistic Society of America, n.d. Web. 20 Nov. 2013. {{DEFAULTSORT:Twaddell, William 1906 births 1982 deaths Harvard University alumni Duke University alumni Brown University faculty Brown University Department of German faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of German faculty Linguistic Society of America presidents