Ida Caroline Ward
Ida Caroline Ward
| Miss; Dr Ida Caroline Ward BLitt DLit | |||||
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| Born | 1880 | ||||
| Died | 1949 | ||||
| Residence | School of Oriental and African Studies; 17 Monkville Ave, NW11 [census] | ||||
| Occupation |
academic linguist | ||||
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Office Notes
RAI Council 1940-41 Member
RAI Council 1941-42 Member
RAI Council 1942-43 Member
House Notes
1940.02.20 nominated and elected forthwith
Notes From Elsewhere
Ida Caroline Ward (4 October 1880, Bradford – 10 October 1949, Guildford) was a British linguist working mainly on African languages who did influential work in the domains of phonology and tonology. Her 1933 collaboration with Diedrich Hermann Westermann, Practical Phonetics for Students of African languages, was reprinted many times. African languages she worked on include Efik (1933), Igbo (1936, 1941), Mende (1944), and Yoruba (published posthumously in 1952).[1]
Ida Ward was the eighth child of a Yorkshire wool merchant. After taking her B.Litt degree at Durham University, she taught in secondary schools in the north of England and in London. From 1919 to 1932 she worked at University College London with the famous phonetician Daniel Jones; in 1932 she moved on to the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, becoming a professor in 1944
Publications
External Publications
Ward, Ida C. (1923) Defects of Speech: Their Nature and Their Cure. E.P. Dutton.
Lilias E. Armstrong & Ward, Ida C. (1926) Handbook of English Intonation, B. G. Teubner, Leipzig, Germany
Westermann, Diedrich Hermann & Ward, Ida C. (1933) Practical phonetics for students of African languages. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute Ward, Ida C. (1933) The phonetic and tonal structure of Efik. Cambridge: Heffer.
Ward, Ida C. (1936) An introduction to the Ibo language. Cambridge: Heffer.
Ward, Ida C. (1937) Practical suggestions for the learning of an African language in the field, Africa, supplement, vol. 10, no. 2. London. Ward, Ida C. (1939) The Phonetics of English. Heffer, Cambridge.
Ward, Ida C. (1939) The Pronunciation of Twi. Heffer, Cambridge.
Ward, Ida C. (1941) Ibo dialects and the development of a common language. Cambridge: Heffer.
Ward, Ida C. (1944) 'A phonetic introduction to Mende', in Crosby, K.H., An introduction to the study of Mende. Cambridge: Heffer.
Ward, Ida C. (1952) An introduction to the Yoruba language. Cambridge: Heffer & Sons.
House Publications
1943.04.20 read The development of vernacular literature in Africa
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