Recording of Professor Ida Ward on the pronunciation of English, 1933


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Ida Ward was one of the first Western scholars to carry out advanced and comprehensive work in the field of African languages, specialising in phonology and tonology.

In this 1933 recording, part of a series on the pronunciation of English, Ward delivers a lesson on intonation.

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