Year: 2024
Type: other
Abstract: John Kelly, phonetician, phonologist and Africanist, died in Leeds on 30 December 2023 at the age of 87.He was born in Davyhulme, a small town on the outskirts of Manchester on 23 August 1936.He was proud of his Northern roots.One of the first academic articles he published was based on the dialect of his home town, as was one of his last academic conference presentations, in 2000 in Sankelmark Germany, where he returned to the same subject.John read French and German at the University of Manchester and graduated in 1959 with a First Class Honours degree in Modern Languages.In 1961 he began postgraduate study at Edinburgh in the Department of Phonetics under David Abercrombie with whom he would go on to enjoy a life-long friendship.He was an assistant lecturer in phonetics at the University of Edinburgh from 1961 to 1964, and a lecturer in phonetics at the University of lbadan, Nigeria, from 1964 to 1965.He then became a lecturer in phonetics and linguistics at SOAS moving to the Department of Language, as it then was, at the University of York in 1972 to teach Swahili and Phonetics.He retired as Reader in Phonetics and Linguistics in
Authors: John Local, Adrian P. Simpson
Institutions: University of York, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4411355526
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