Lilias Armstrong
Lilias Eveline Armstrong was an English phonetician. She worked at University College London, where she attained the rank of reader. Her most notable works were the 1926 book A Handbook of English Intonation and The Phonetic Structure of Somali. She died of a stroke in 1937 at age 55.
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Lilias Eveline Armstrong was an English phonetician. She worked at University College London, where she attained the rank of reader. Armstrong is most known for her work on English intonation as well as the phonetics and tone of Somali and Kikuyu. She died of a stroke in 1937 at age 55. Her most notable works were the 1926 book A Handbook of English Intonation, co-written with Ida C. Ward, and the 1934 paper The Phonetic Structure of Somali. She was the subeditor of the International Phonetics Association’s journal Le Maître Phonétique for more than a decade. Armstrong was born on 29 September 1882 in Pendlebury, Lancashire, to James William Armstrong, a Free Methodist minister, and Mary Elizabeth Armstrong, née Hunter. Her upbringing led to her speech having certain Northern English characteristics. Armstrong studied French and Latin at the University of Leeds. She received her B. A. in 1906, and she was also trained as a teacher. She taught French in an elementary school in the London suburbs for a while, but then joined the University College Phonetically Department, headed by Daniel Jones. Armstrong first taught phonetics in 1917 in Daniel Jones’s summer course for missionaries; even before then, Jones had planned to give Armstrong a full-time position at the university. Armstrong became lecturer in 1920, senior lecturer in 1921, and reader in 1937. She also occasionally taught at the School of Oriental Studies.
Armstrong also led ear-training exercises, which were an important part of teaching at the Department of Phonetics. In 1919, the University began teaching its popular courses in French and English phonetics. In 1921, Armstrong conducted daily ear- training exercises for those studying English and French. By the 1921 summer course, two readers of English had attended the course and provided a description of the phonetic exercises. By 1921, she not only conducted ear- Training exercises, but also lectured on phonetics of French, English, Swedish, and Russian, and, alongside Daniel Jones, a class on speech pathology titled. “Lecture-demonstrations on Methods of Correcting Defects of Speech.” Armstrong was also involved in the teaching of several vacation courses held by the University in 1919, 1920, and 1921. She became acting head of the department in his stead in the first nine months of 1920, when Jones had to take a leave of absence the first 9 months of1920, During this time, she interviewed and admitted students into the department. Armstrong received a Diploma with Distinction in French Phonography; she got a Di diploma with Distinctions in English phonography the following year. She had success in this line of work, and was well on her way to becoming headmistress by the time she left this position in 1918. In 1920, Armstrong became the Phonets Department’s first full- time assistant.
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