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DR. E. W. SCRIPTURE'S memoir deals with the employment of instruments and apparatus which “not only record the facts of speech automatically and permanently, but also provide for interpreting them with microscopic accuracy,” and discusses a number of linguistic problems which have been or might be approached by these means. Philologists are divided more or less into two camps by the assertions of Prof. Sievers, of Leipzig, as to the intonation of ancient Hebrew, Greek, Swedish, Gothic, etc. Rejected by some as having no objective basis, his inferences are accepted by others as authoritative, and are now finding their way into the text-books, as in Streitberg's “Gotisches Elementarbuch.” Meanwhile the number of phonetic laboratories on the continent is increasing. There are workers in this field in Paris, Hamburg, Prague, Uppsala, Utrecht, Louvain, Kristiania, and other places.
The Study of English Speech by New Methods of Phonetic Investigation.
By Dr. E. W. Scripture. (Published for the British Academy.) Pp. 31. (London: Oxford University Press, 1923.) 3s. 6d. net.
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Our Bookshelf. Nature 112, 160 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112160a0
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