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Beatrice Honikman
Born(1905-09-28)28 September 1905
Cape Town, Cape Colony
Died22 March 1998(1998-03-22) (aged 92)
Cape Town, South Africa
Academic background
EducationUniversity College London
Academic work
DisciplinePhonetics
Sub-disciplineArticulatory phonetics
InstitutionsSOAS University of London
University of Leeds
Notable works'Articulatory Settings' (1964)

Beatrice Lilian Honikman ((1905-09-28)28 September 1905 – (1998-03-22)22 March 1998) was a phonetician of South African origin who taught at SOAS University of London and the University of Leeds. Her special field was the phonetics of African languages.[1]

Career

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After graduating in South Africa, she studied phonetics in the late 1920’s with Daniel Jones at University College London. She later worked as a lecturer in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London under J.R.Firth.[2][3] During this period she jointly published material on the phonetics of Hausa.[4] She undertook the major task of editing and completing The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu when its author, Lilias Armstrong died suddenly in 1937. The work was published in 1940.[5] Honikman’s career continued with a lectureship in the Department of Phonetics at the University of Leeds, under the headship of P.A.D. MacCarthy, from 1955 to her retirement in 1971.[6] Her best known publication from that period was on the topic of articulatory settings (or basis of articulation).[7] Although she was not, and did not claim to be, the originator of this idea,[8] her article is widely cited in discussion of articulatory settings, an area of growing interest to language teachers.[9] She died in Cape Town in 1998.[6][10]

References

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  1. ^ "Beatrice Honikman", in Bronstein, Arthur J., Raphael, Lawrence J. and Stevens C.J. (eds.) A Biographical Dictionary of the Phonetic Sciences, 1977, Lehman College, pp. 96–97.
  2. ^ Collins, Beverley; Mees, Inger (1999). The Real Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel Jones. Mouton de Gruyter. p. 353.
  3. ^ Brown, Ian (2015). The School of Oriental and African Studies: Imperial Training and the Expansion of Learning. Cambridge University Press. pp. 63, 73–74.
  4. ^ Bargery, G.P.; Honikman, Beatrice (1935). Hausa. A series of conversations and readings in Hausa. With texts, English translation and explanatory notes on the pronunciation of Hausa. London: Linguaphone Institute.
  5. ^ Armstrong, Lilias (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. London: International African Institute.
  6. ^ a b Windsor Lewis, Jack. "Beatrice Honikman". The Phonetician via JWL Phonetiblog. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  7. ^ Honikman, Beatrice (1964). "Articulatory Settings" (PDF). In Abercrombie, David; Fry, D.B.; MacCarthy, P.A.D.; Scott, N.C.; Trim, J.L.M. (eds.). In Honour of Daniel Jones. Longman. pp. 73–84.
  8. ^ Jenner, Brian (2001). "Articulatory setting: genealogies of an idea". Historiographia Linguistica. 28: 121–141.
  9. ^ Messum, Piers (2010). "Understanding and teaching the English articulatory setting" (PDF). Speak Out! (IATEFL Pronunciation Special Interest Group). 43: 20–4.
  10. ^ W[indsor] L[ewis], J[ack] (2000). "In Memoriam: Beatrice Honikman". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 30 (1–2): 108–110. doi:10.1017/S0025100300006757.
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