![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Gimson’s revision these words appear simply as /ˈtəʊstræp, ˈtəʊstræk/. Thus in the twelfth edition, his last, Jones transcribed toe-strap as /ˈtəʊ-stræp/ but toast-rack as /ˈtəʊst-ræk/. in all circumstances where the absence of suitable marking might lead to ambiguity in the interpetation of a phonetically transcribed word’ (Jones 1963: xxvi). a means of showing “syllable separation”. In his complete revision of Daniel Jones’s English Pronouncing Dictionary (1977), Gimson did away with the hyphen symbol which Jones had considered ‘necessary. This is the hypothesis that underlies the syllable divisions shown in my Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. It argues for a view of syllabification in English phonetics in which not only onsets but also codas are maximized in stressed syllables. ![]()
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