A Bibliography of L. Sprague de Camp's Le Maître Phonétique Articles

by Brian Kunde

Compiled to correct in part the particularly weak coverage of these in the standard De Camp: an L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography, compiled by Charlotte Laughlin and Daniel J H Levack (hereinafter L/L). Items from Le Maître Phonétique were generally printed in the International Phonetic Alphabet and phonetic spelling, are here rendered in standard English script and spelling, as in L/L. Only initial appearances treated, not reprints (most items, however, were never reprinted). Number in parantheses is of entry in the "Non-Book Appearances: section of L/L. An "i" after number indicates L/L citation is incomplete (missing enumeration and/or pagination or incomplete pagination). An "e" after number indicates L/L citation is erroneous (journal name, article title, enumeration, date, or pagination provided is wrong). An asterisk indicates there is no entry in L/L. --BPK.

The organ of the International Phonetic Association, of which de Camp was a member from 1936 onward, and a contributing member beginning in 1937. Le Maître Phonétique had the peculiarity of printing most of its content in phonetic spelling and the International Phonetic Alphabet, which makes reading it a tough slog for the uninitiated. The practice was later mercifully dropped by its successor title, the Journal of the International Phonetic Association, except for transcriptions. De Camp's first appearance in the journal is his initial listing in the list of members in the Apr./Jun. 1936 issue, p. 42: "364. Sprague de Camp, L., 7A Cambria Apts., 351 West 55th Street, New York City." His contributions, consisting of both articles and transcriptions, commenced in the Jul./Sep. 1937 issue and ran almost uninterrupted through the Jul./Dec. 1946 issue. He contributed more sporadically in the late 1940s through the early 1950s, with pieces appearing Jul./Dec. 1949, Jan./Jun. 1951-Jul./Dec. 1952, and Jul./Dec. 1953. After a long hiatus, additional sporadic contributions appeared in the journal and its successor, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, in the 1970s.

ser. 3, no. 59, Jul./Sep. 1937, pp. 46-47 (444i): "New York City Dialect"

ser. 3, no. 59, Jul./Sep. 1937, pp. 52-53 (*): "American English: General American" [untitled anecdote] [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 60, Oct./Dec. 1937, pp. 74-75 (*): "American English: General American [from Lancelot Hogben, The Nature of Living Matter]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 61, Jan./Mar. 1938, pp. 3-4 (517i): "R-Sounds in New York English"

ser. 3, no. 62, Apr./Jun. 1938, pp. 18-21 (456i): "A Note on Palmer"

ser. 3, no. 62, Apr./Jun. 1938, pp. 26-27 (*): "American English: General American [from Eric T. Bell, The Search for Truth]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 63, Jul./Sep. 1938, pp. 44-45 (324i): "Is 'Really' Really 'Really'?"

ser. 3, no. 63, Jul./Sep. 1938, pp. 51-52 (*): "General American [from Eric T. Bell, The Search for Truth]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 64, Oct./Dec. 1938, pp. 67-69 (656i): "The Vowels in 'Burner'"

ser. 3, no. 64, Oct./Dec. 1938, p. 72 (453i): "Northern New England American"

ser. 3, no. 64, Oct./Dec. 1938, pp. 74-75 (*): "General American" [from Eric T. Bell, The Search for Truth]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 65, Jan./Mar. 1939, pp. 5-7 (455i): "A Note on Davis"

ser. 3, no. 65, Jan./Mar. 1939, p. 10 (77e): "Canadian French ('Canuck')" [L/L omits paranthetical portion of title]

ser. 3, no. 65, Jan./Mar. 1939, p. 13 (*): "General American [from Eric T. Bell, The Search for Truth]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 66, Apr./Jun. 1939, pp. 33-34 (*): "General American [from Eric T. Bell, The Search for Truth]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 67, Jul./Sep. 1939, pp. 45-47 (15e): "American Intervocal R-Sounds" [L/L lists piece in Jul./Sep. 1938 issue]

ser. 3, no. 67, Jul./Sep. 1939, pp. 50-51 (487e): "Philadelphia American English" [L/L lists piece in Jul./Sep. 1938 issue]

ser. 3, no. 67, Jul./Sep. 1939, pp. 54-55 (*): "General American [from Eric T. Bell, The Search for Truth]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 68, Oct./Dec. 1939, p. 72 (654i): "Virginia American"

ser. 3, no. 68, Oct./Dec. 1939, pp. 74-75 (*): "General American [from Eric T. Bell, The Search for Truth]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 69, Jan./Mar. 1940, pp. 7-8 (86e): "The Centering Diphthongs" [L/L omits "The" from title]

ser. 3, no. 69, Jan./Mar. 1940, pp. 8-9 (*): "J. F. Snyder & W. H. Wilke, Effective Pronunciation : A Phonetic Analysis of American Speech" [book review]

ser. 3, no. 69, Jan./Mar. 1940, pp. 9-10 (*): "C. E. Kantner and R. West, Phonetics" [book review]

ser. 3, no. 69, Jan./Mar. 1940, pp. 18-19 (*): "American English (General American) [from Walter D. Edmonds, "Drums Along the Mohawk"]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 70, Apr./Jun. 1940, p. 37 (*): "American English (General American) [from Eric T. Bell, The Search for Truth]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 71, Jul./Sep. 1940, pp. 42-44 (643i): "Two Unsymbolized American Vowels"

ser. 3, no. 71, Jul./Sep. 1940, pp. 51-52 (*): "English (General American) [from Eric T. Bell, The Search for Truth]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 72, Oct./Dec. 1940, pp. 67-68 (13i): "American English from Northern New Jersey"

ser. 3, no. 72, Oct./Dec. 1940, pp. 70-71 (*): "English (General American) [from Eric T. Bell, The Search for Truth]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 73, Jan./Mar. 1941, pp. 2-3 (2i): "A in America"

ser. 3, no. 73, Jan./Mar. 1941, p. 6 (585i): "Southern American English"

ser. 3, no. 73, Jan./Mar. 1941, p. 9 (*): "English (General American) [untitled anecdote]" [transcription?]

ser. 3, no. 74, Apr./Jun. 1941, pp. 18-19 (1e): "A,

ʌ, and Broad Transcriptions" [L/L elides "^," and drops final "s" from title]

ser. 3, no. 74, Apr./Jun. 1941, pp. 22-23 (442i): "New York City American"

ser. 3, no. 74, Apr./Jun. 1941, pp. 24-25 (*): "English (General American) [from Ralph Linton, "The Study of Man"]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 75, Jul./Sep. 1941, pp. 41-42 (*): "English (General American) [from Ralph Linton, "The Study of Man"]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 76, Oct./Dec. 1941, p. 57 (*): "English (General American) [from Ralph Linton, "The Study of Man"]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 77, Jan./Jun. 1942, pp. 2-3 (605i): "Symbols of Marginal Utility"

ser. 3, no. 77, Jan./Jun. 1942, pp. 8-9 (*): "English (General American) [from Richard F. Burton, The Book fo the Thousand Nights and a Night]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 78, Jul./Dec. 1942, p. 22 (18i): "American Retroflexed Vowels"

ser. 3, no. 78, Jul./Dec. 1942, pp. 25-26 (*): "English (General American) [Bret Harte, The Society upon the Stanislaus (circa 1875)]" [pt. 1 - lacks citation and transcriber credit, both provided in pt. 2 (below)] [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 79, Jan./Jun. 1943, pp. 11-12 (443i): "New York City American"

ser. 3, no. 79, Jan./Jun. 1943, pp. 13-14 (*): "English (General American) [Bret Harte, The Society upon the Stanislaus (circa 1875)] (continued)" [pt.2] [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 81, Jan./Jun. 1944, pp. 8-9 (*): "English (General American) [A Mnemonic on the Names of the Kings of Assyria, by L. Sprague de Camp] [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 82, Jul./Dec. 1944, p. 16 (*): "English (General American) (continued from m.f. Jan., 1940, p. 19) [from Walter D. Edmonds, Drums Along the Mohawk]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 83, Jan./Jun. 1945, pp. 2-5 (675i): "When Is a Diphthong?"

ser. 3, no. 83, Jan./Jun. 1945, pp. 8-9 (*): "English (General American) (continued) [from Walter D. Edmonds, "Drums Along the Mohawk"]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 84, Jul./Dec. 1945, pp. 27-28 (193i): "Frisian"

ser. 3, no. 84, Jul./Dec. 1945, pp. 32-33 (*): "English (General American) [from Walter D. Edmonds, "Drums Along the Mohawk"]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 85, Jan./Jun. 1946, p. 4 (*): "Correction" [to "When Is a Diphthong?"]

ser. 3, no. 85, Jan./Jun. 1946, pp. 8-9 (*): "English (General American) [from Walter D. Edmonds, "Drums Along the Mohawk"]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 86, Jul./Dec. 1946, pp. 17-21 (671i): "What is Narrowness?"

ser. 3, no. 86, Jul./Dec. 1946, pp. 28-29 (*): "English (General American) [from Walter D. Edmonds, "Drums Along the Mohawk"]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 92, Jul./Dec. 1949, p. 27 (*): "Charles Kenneth Thomas, An Introduction to the Phonetics of American English" [book review]

ser. 3, no. 95, Jan./Jun. 1951, p. 20 (*): "Stanley Wemyss, The Languages of the World, Ancient and Modern" [book review]

ser. 3, no. 95, Jan./Jun. 1951, p. 23 (*): "English (General American) [Thucydides, vi, 34, 35, Crawley transl.]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 96, Jul./Dec. 1951, pp. 45-46 (*): "English (General American) [Thucydides, vi, 36, Crawley transl.]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 97, Jan./Jun. 1952, p. 16 (*): "English (General American) [Thucydides, vi, 37, Crawley transl.]" [transcription]

ser. 3, no. 98, Jul./Dec. 1952, pp. 34-35 (445e): "New York City Dialect" [L/L lists piece in Jul./Dec. 1946 issue]

ser. 3, no. 100, Jul./Dec. 1953, p. 42 (*): "English (General American) [Thucydides, vi, 39, Crawley transl.]" [Note: Thucycides, vi, 38 does not appear in the issues between vi, 37 and this transcription] [transcription]

[VOLS. FOR 1954-JAN./JUN. 1970 NOT CONSULTED]

ser. 3, no. 134, Jul./Dec. 1970, pp. 42-45 (618i): "The Third Webster's International" [book review]

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