Dennis Fry
Appearance
Dennis Butler Fry | |
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Born | Stockbridge, Hampshire, United Kingdom | 3 November 1907
Died | 21 March 1983 London, United Kingdom | (aged 75)
Known for | Works on English phonetics |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Phonetics |
Institutions | University College London |
Doctoral students | Neil Smith |
Dennis Butler Fry (3 November 1907 – 21 March 1983) was a British linguist and Professor of Experimental Phonetics at University College London. Through experiments he conducted in the 1950s and 1960s, Fry demonstrated that lexical stress correlated with loudness, pitch, and length of the affected vowel.[1][2]
Books
- Fry, D.B. (ed.) (1976). Acoustic phonetics: a course of basic readings. Cambridge: CUP
- Fry, D.B. (1977). Homo loquens: man as a talking animal. Cambridge: CUP
- Fry, D.B. (1979). The physics of speech. Cambridge: CUP
- Fry, D.B. and Kostić, Đ. (1939). A Serbo-Croat phonetic reader. London: University of London Press
- Whetnall, E. and Fry, D.B. (1964). The deaf child. London: Heinemann
- Whetnall, E. and Fry, D.B. (1970). Learning to hear. London: Heinemann
See also
References
- ^ "Obituary of D.B. Fry". www.phon.ucl.ac.uk.
- ^ Koffi, Ettien (2018). "A Just Noticeable Difference (JND) Reanalysis Of Fry's Original Acoustic Correlates Of Stress In American English". Linguistic Portfolios. 7 (1): 2–25.