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See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
BELL, See also:ALEXANDER See also:MELVILLE (1819—1905) , See also:American educationalist, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh, See also:Scotland, on the 1st of See also:March 1819. He studied under and became the See also:principal assist-See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
ant of his See also:father, Alexander Bell, an authority on See also:phonetics and defective speech. From 1843 to 1865 be lectured on elocution at the university of Edinburgh, and from 1865 to 187o at the university of See also:London. In 1868, and again in 1870 and 1871, he lectured in the See also:Lowell See also:Institute course in See also:Boston. In 1870 he became a lecturer on See also:philology at See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:Kingston, See also:Ontario; and in 1881 he removed to See also:Washington, D.C., where he devoted himself to the See also:education of See also:deaf mutes by the " visible speech " method of orthoepy, in which the alphabetical characters of his own invention were graphic diagrams of positions and motions of the See also:organs of speech. He held high See also:rank as an authority on physiological phonetics (q.v.) and was the author of numerous See also:works on orthoepy, elocution and education, including See also:Steno-Phonography (1852); Letters and Sounds (1858); The See also:Standard Elocutionist (186o); Principles of Speech and See also:Dictionary of Sounds (1863); Visible Speech: The See also:Science of Universal Alphabetics (1867); Sounds and their Relations (1881); Lectures on Phonetics (1885); A Popular See also:Manual of Visible Speech and Vocal See also:Physiology (1889); See also:World See also:English: the Universal See also:Language (1888); The Science of Speech (1897); The Fundamentals of Elocution (1899).
See See also:John Hitz, Alexander Melville Bell (Washington, 1906).
End of Article: BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
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