Джон Уэллс родился
11 марта
1939 года
в городе
Бутл
,
Ланкашир
,
Англия
. Его мать была англичанкой, а отец — выходцем из Южной Африки. У Джона Уэллса было двое младших братьев. В возрасте 16 лет Джон Уэллс изучил эсперанто.
Его наиболее известные публикации
Accents of English
,
The Sounds of the
IPA
,
Lingvistikaj Aspektoj de Esperanto
, и словарь произношений
Longman Pronunciation Dictionary
. Он является автором словаря английский-эсперанто и изобретателем фонетического алфавита ASCII
X-SAMPA
.
1962 —
A specimen of British English
. In:
Maître Phonétique
Nr. 117, S. 2-5.
1967 —
Specimen. Jamaican Creole
. In:
Maître Phonétique
, Nr. 127 S. 5.
1968 —
Nonprevocalic intrusive r in urban Hampshire
. IN:
Progress Report
, UCL Phonetics Laboratory, S. 56-57
1970 —
Local accents in England and Wales
. In:
J.Ling.
, Nr. 6, S. 231—252.
1979 —
Final voicing and vowel length in Welsh
. In:
Phonetica'. 36.4-5, S. 344—360.
1980 —
The brogue that isn’t
. In:
JIPA
vol. 10 (1980), S. 74-79. Can be read on-line.
1985 —
English accents in England
. In: P. Trudgill (Hrsg.):
Language in the British Isles
. Cambridge University Press. 55-69.
1985 —
English pronunciation and its dictionary representation
. In: R. Ilson: (Hrsg.):
Dictionaries, lexicography and language learning
. Oxford: Pergamon.
1994 —
The Cockneyfication of RP?
. In: G. Melchers u.a. (Hrsg.):
Nonstandard Varieties of Language
. Papers from the Stockholm Symposium 11-13 April 1991. 198—205. Stockholm Studies in English LXXXIV. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International.
1995 —
New syllabic consonants in English
. In: J. Windsor Lewis (Hrsg.):
Studies in General and English Phonetics. Essays in honour of Prof. J.D. O’Connor
. London: Routledge.
ISBN 0-415-08068-1
.
1995 —
Age grading in English pronunciation preferences
. In:
Proceedings of ICPhS 95
, Stockholm, vol. 3:696-699.
1996 —
Why phonetic transcription is important
. In:
Malsori
(Journal of the Phonetic Society of Korea) 31-32, S. 239—242.
1997 —
What’s happening to Received Pronunciation?
. In:
English Phonetics
(English Phonetic Society of Japan), 1, S. 13-23.
1997 —
Our changing pronunciation
. In:
Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society
xix, S. 42-48
1997 —
One of three named «main technical authors» for Part IV, Spoken language reference materials
. In: D. Gibbon u.a. (Hrsg.):
Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems
. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.
1997 —
Whatever happened to Received Pronunciation?
In: Medina & Soto (Hrsg):
II Jornadas de Estudios Ingleses
, Universidad de Jaén, Spain, S. 19-28.
1997 —
Is RP turning into Cockney?
. In: M. P. Dvorzhetska, A. A. Kalita (Hrsg.):
Studies in Communicative Phonetics and Foreign Language Teaching Methodology
. Kyiv State Linguistic University, Ukraine, S. 10-15.
1999 —
Which pronunciation do you prefer?
. In:
IATEFL
Bd. 149, June-July 1999, «The Changing Language», S. 10-11.
1999 —
Pronunciation preferences in British English. A new survey
. In:
Proc. of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
, San Francisco, 1999.
2000 —
British English pronunciation preferences. A changing scene
. In:
Journal of the International Phonetic Association
(1999) 29 (1), S. 33-50.
2000 —
Overcoming phonetic interference
. In:
English Phonetics
(Journal of the English Phonetic Society of Japan), Nr. 3, S. 9-21.
2001 —
Orthographic diacritics
. In:
Language Problems and Language Planning
24.3.
2002 —
John Wells
. In: K. Brown, V. Law (Hrsg.):
Linguistics in Britain. Personal histories
. Publications of the Philological Society, 36. Oxford: Blackwell.
2002 —
Accents in Britain today
. In: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak, Patrick J. Melia (Hrsg.):
Accents and Speech in Teaching English Phonetics and Phonology
. Lang, Frankfurt/M. 2002 [2003].
ISBN 3-631-39616-3
, S. 9-17.
2003 —
Phonetic research by written questionnaire
. In: M. J. Solé, u.a. (Hrsg.):
Proc. 15th Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona
, R.4.7:4
2003 —
Phonetic symbols in word processing and on the web
. In: M. J. Solé u.a. (Hrsg..):
Proc. 15th Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona
, S.2.8:6
Монографии
1962 -
Unpublished MA thesis, University of London.
1971 -
Practical Phonetics
. London: Pitman.
ISBN 0-273-43949-9
(with G. Colson)
1973 -
Jamaican pronunciation in London. Publications of the Philological Society xxv. Oxford: Blackwell.
ISBN 0-631-14730-6
. (Revised version of his PhD dissertation, 1971.)
1990 -
Longman Pronunciation Dictionary
. Longman. (ESU Duke of Edinburgh’s Prize.)
1993 -
Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words
. Edited by John Ayto. Oxford: Helicon.
1994 -
Longman Interactive English Dictionary
. CD-ROM, incorporating a spoken version of the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. ACT Multimedia/ Harlow: Longman,
ISBN 0-582-23694-0
.
Книги
Wells, J. C.
Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary
(неопр.)
. — Kent: Teach Yourself Books, 1969. —
ISBN 0-340-27576-6
.