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See also:ELLIS (originally See also:SHARPE), See also:ALEXANDER See also:JOHN (1814-189o) , See also:English philologist, mathematician, musician and writer on See also:phonetics, was See also:born at Hoxton on the 14th of See also:June 1814. He was educated at See also:Shrewsbury, See also:Eton, and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cam-See also:bridge, and took his degree in high mathematical honours. He was connected with many learned See also:societies as member or See also:president, and was See also:governor of University College, See also:London. He was the first in See also:England to reduce the study of phonetics to a See also:science. His most important See also:work, to which the greater See also:part of his See also:life was devoted, is On See also:Early English See also:Pronunciation, with See also:special reference to See also:Shakespeare and See also:Chaucer (1869-1889), in five parts, which he intended to supplement by a See also:sixth, containing an abstract of the whole, an See also:account of the views and criticisms of other inquirers in the same See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, and a See also:complete See also:index, but See also:ill-See also:health prevented him from carrying out his intention. He had See also:long been associated with See also:Isaac See also:Pitman in his attempts to reform English spelling, and published A Plea for Phonotypy and Phonography (1845) and A Plea for Phonetic Spelling (1848); and contributed the articles on " Phonetics " and " Speech-sounds " to the 9th edition of the Ency. Brit. He translated (with considerable additions) See also:Helmholtz's Sensations of See also:Tone as a physiological Basis for the Theory of See also:Music (2nd ed., 1885); and was the author of several smaller See also:works on music, chiefly in connexion with his favourite subject phonetics. He died in London on the 28th of See also:October 189o.
End of Article: ELLIS (originally SHARPE), ALEXANDER JOHN (1814-189o)
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