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William Freeman Twaddell

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Archibald A. Hill
Archibald A. Hill*
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University of Texas, Austin
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Obituary
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Language , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , June 1983 , pp. 347 - 354
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Copyright © 1983 by Linguistic Society of America

References

Bibliography of W. Freeman Twaddell

The principal source for the following bibliography is the informal list made by Freeman himself, referred to in fn. 1, above. I have not been able to examine all entries, and those not seen or otherwise identified are marked with the initials WFT.Google Scholar
1929. New light on phonetic change. Monatshefte 21.230–37.Google Scholar
1930. A possible Greek cognate of English bad. Modern Language Notes 45.171.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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1932. Werdan and wesan again. Germanic Review 7.81–3.Google Scholar
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[The monograph has been anthologized in Readings in linguistics, ed. by Joos, Martin, Washington, DC: ACLS, 1957, 55–79. Volume reprinted, 1958, 1959; 4th edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.] [The essay has also appeared in Japanese as Onso no teigi ni tsuite, tr. by Shiro Hattori, Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1960. Pp. 89.]Google Scholar
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1939. Rev. of Grundfragen der Phonometrie, by Zwirner, Eberhard and Zwirner, Kurt. JEGP 38.278–80.Google Scholar
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1945. ASTP at Wisconsin (with Helmut Rehder). German Quarterly 17.216–23.Google Scholar
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1952. Phonemes and allophones in speech analysis. JASA 24.607–11.Google Scholar
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1954. Descriptive linguistics. Princeton Graduate Alumni Bulletin, 40–54. [WFT]Google Scholar
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1955. A note on the Proto-Indo-European resonants in Germanic. Lg. 31.532–3.Google Scholar
Some difficulties in English pronunciation—for pupils whose native language is Egyptian Arabic. [This does not seem to have been a formal publication. I have a duplicated version, signed as ‘Drafted by W. F. Twaddell, May 1955.‘ The pagination is from 13 to 32, indicating that it was intended as part of a larger volume.]Google Scholar
1956. Pre-OHG */t/. For Roman Jakobson, ed. by Halle, Morris et al., 559–66. The Hague: Mouton.Google Scholar
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