English Pronunciation Dictionary

Japanese: 《英語発音辞典》 - えいごはつおんじてん
English Pronunciation Dictionary

…He also traveled to America and India to give lectures widely. In Japan, he had a particularly great influence through his English Pronunciation Dictionary (1917, 14th edition 1977), and the Jones System phonetic symbols based on the International Phonetic Alphabet were introduced during the Taisho era and became very popular, replacing the Webster System that had been used until then in many English dictionaries. The dictionary has now been revised by his student AC Gimson, and the symbols used are slightly different, but the method of the first edition is widespread in Japan, and a method of expressing American pronunciation has been devised and established based on this. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…またアメリカやインドにも渡り,広く講演を行っている。日本には特に,その《英語発音辞典》(1917,14版1977)を通じて大きな影響を与え,国際音声字母に即した〈ジョーンズ式発音記号〉は大正年間に紹介されると大いに普及して,それまでの〈ウェブスター式〉にとって代わり多くの英語辞書に用いられた。上記辞典は現在は弟子のA.C.ギムソンにより改訂され,使用記号が少し異なっているが,日本では初版の方式が普及していて,これによりアメリカ発音を表記する方法もくふうされ,定着している。…

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