David Abercrombie (linguist)

David Abercrombie (19 December 1909 – 4 July 1992) was a British phonetician who established the Department of Phonetics at the University of Edinburgh. He was a student of J. R. Firth and Daniel Jones. He retired as Professor of Phonetics in 1980 and died in Edinburgh at the age of 82. He was a son of Lascelles Abercrombie.

Bibliography

• Abercrombie, David (1964). English phonetic texts. London: Faber and Faber.
• Abercrombie, David (1965). Studies in phonetics and linguistics. London: Oxford University Press.
• Abercrombie, David (1967). Elements of general phonetics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Abercrombie, David (1991). Fifty years in phonetics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Kelly, J. (1993). "David Abercrombie". Phonetica. 50: 68–71. doi:10.1159/000261926.

External links

• Works by David Abercrombie at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about David Abercrombie at Internet Archive