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Daniel Jones was born in London, United Kingdom, on September 12, 1881.
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Daniel Jones was born in London, United Kingdom, on September 12, 1881.
He was educated at Radley and University College Schools.
He graduated in mathematics from King's College, Cambridge, in 1903, and received his MA in 1907, the year he was called to the Bar (Lincoln's Inn).
He gained an appointment in 1907 at U. College London, the year in which its Department of Phonetics was set up, and worked there for most of his life: as lecturer (1907–14), Reader (1914–21), Professor (1921–49), and Emeritus Professor (1949–67). He received his B. A. in 1903, and his M. A. in 1907.
He retired in 1949.
His numerous publications concern many languages: English, Neo-Indic, Sechuana (Bantu), French, Russian, and Cantonese.
After retirement, Jones worked assiduously at his publications almost up to the end of his long life.
He became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense, employing the word in his article "The phonetic structure of the Sechuana Language".
Apart from his own vast array of published work, Jones will be remembered for having acted as mentor to numerous scholars who later went on to become famous linguists in their own right. For several decades his department at University College was pivotal in the development of phonetics and in making its findings known to the wider world.
The works for which he is best known are An English ponouncing dictionary (1917) and An Outline of English Phonetics (1918), both of which continue in revised editions.
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From 1906, Jones was an active member of the International Phonetic Association, and was Assistant Secretary from 1907 to 1927, Secretary from 1927 to 1949, and President from 1950 to 1967.
He studied phonetics under Paul Passy, whose niece Cyrille Motte he married in 1911.
