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Professor John Wells FBA

Linguistics
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1996
Subjects
Linguistics
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Phonetics, University College London

Past appointments

University College London Emeritus Professor of Phonetics

2006 -

University College London Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Phonetics

1962 -

Publications

Sounds Interesting 2014

Jamaican pronunciation in London 1973

Accents of English (3 vols) 1982

Longman pronunciation dictionary 1990

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