…In Japan, he had a particularly strong 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 widely used, replacing the Webster System, which had been used in many English dictionaries. The dictionary has now been revised by his student AC Gimson and uses slightly different symbols, but the format of the first edition is widespread in Japan, and a method of expressing American pronunciation has been devised and established using this. His scholarship is practical in a good sense, and he has published unique, balanced and useful observations in books such as An Outline of English Phonetics, English Pronunciation, and Phonemes: Their Nature and Uses. … *Some of the terminology that mentions "Gimson, AC" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…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。彼の学問はよい意味での実用性を備えており,《英語音声学大要》《英語の発音》《音素――その性質と用途》などの著書により,独特ながらも均衡がとれ有益な考察を発表している。… ※「ギムソン,A.C.」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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