Henry Sweet

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Henry Sweet was a pioneering English philologist and phonetician whose work on phonetics and language teaching significantly shaped modern linguistics and influenced later scholars such as Daniel Jones.

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instanceOf linguist
person
philologist
phonetician
countryOfCitizenship England
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1845-09-15
dateOfDeath 1912-04-30
describedAs pioneering English philologist and phonetician
educatedAt Balliol College, Oxford
King’s College London
surface form: King's College London
employer University of Oxford
familyName Sweet
fieldOfWork English
surface form: English language

language teaching
philology
phonetics
givenName Henry
hasInfluenced development of the International Phonetic Alphabet
influenced Daniel Jones
language teaching methodology
modern linguistics
inspiredBy comparative philology
knownFor contributions to English philology
early scientific language teaching methods
pioneering work in phonetics
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Philological Society
name Henry Sweet self-link
nationality English
notableWork A Handbook of Phonetics
A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical
A Primer of Phonetics
An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse
The History of Language
The Practical Study of Languages
The Sounds of English
occupation philologist
phonetician
university teacher
placeOfBirth London, England
surface form: London
placeOfDeath Oxford
residence London, England
surface form: London

Oxford
sexOrGender male
studied Germanic languages
Old English
phonetic transcription
workLocation Oxford

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Daniel Jones influencedBy Henry Sweet
Henry Sweet name Henry Sweet self-link