Daniel Jones

Daniel Jones (1881-1967) was a British phonetician. He was head of the Department of Phonetics at University College, London. Jones became Britain’s first Professor of Phonetics in 1921 and was George Bernard Shaw’s real-life model for Prof. Higgins in Pygmalion.

Publications

 * Jones, D. 1909, The Pronunciation of English, Cambridge: CUP.
 * 1917, An English Pronouncing Dictionary, London: Dent.
 * Jones, D. 2002, Daniel Jones: Collected Works, Vols. 1-8, ed. B. Collins and I.M. Mees, London: Routledge.