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Joining the IPA – 100 years ago

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2010

Michael Ashby
Michael Ashby*
Affiliation:
Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London (UCL) m.ashby@ucl.ac.uk
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What is reproduced here must be as rare an item as any from the early years of the IPA – an unused membership application form for the decade 1910–1919. The section to be completed by the applicant is perforated, ready to be torn along the wavy line. The form is probably a token of the systematic and meticulous approach of the young Daniel Jones (1881–1967), who became Assistant Secretary to the Association in 1910. The clerical task of keeping track of the membership must have been considerable; in 1914, numbers peaked at 1,751, drawn from 40 countries (MacMahon 1986: 31).

Type
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Information
Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , December 2010 , pp. 279 - 283
Copyright
Copyright © International Phonetic Association 2010

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References

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