10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIAPHONE»
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diaphone in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
diaphone and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Organ: An Encyclopedia
An Encyclopedia Douglas Earl Bush, Richard Kassel. DIEFFENBACH Fig. 28.
Diaphone. The diaphone is designed to utilize the standing wave in the resonator
body of the pipe as the predominant control of the speaking pitch. In its purest ...
Douglas Earl Bush, Richard Kassel, 2006
2
Lepidopterorum Catalogus
DIAPHONE Hubner, [1820] 1816e:188. Type-species: Bombyx elegans Fabricius
by subsequent designation by Kirby, 1892:909. Synonym: Taeniopyga
Wallengren 1858 HADENINAE angolensis Weymer Diaphone, 1901:67. A
synonym of ...
3
Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday
Allen 1953: 94-100 and Halliday 1957: 64-65; Ellis 1966a: 104-105, 114115, 150
).3 As used by its originator, Jones, “diaphone” referred not to comparison
between tongues, nor dialects of a language, but to comparison between accents
of a ...
Ross Steele, Terry Threadgold, 1987
4
Studies by Einar Haugen: Presented on the Occasion of his ...
The term “diaphone” was used some years ago by Daniel Jones to refer to the
sameness of phonemes in different dialects and can well be extended to refer to
different languages as well. Such a diaphonic relationship exists, e. g. between ...
5
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building: Being an Account of ...
Theinvention ofthe Diaphone by HopeJonesin1894 willsomedaybe
regardedasthemost important step inadvance hithertoachieved intheartof
organbuilding.The existence of patentsat presentprevents generaladoption
oftheinventionand limits ...
George Laing Miller, 1969
6
A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology
Adj. dialectological. diaphone /'daıəfəʊn/ n. 1. (also diaphoneme) An abstract
phonological unit posited for a language as a whole, represented in each of
several distinct varieties of that language as a phoneme with the same
distribution but ...
Some varieties add a (very rare) voiced palatal plosive, notated dd and
sometimes realized as an affricate [d3]; see also under the diaphone Ijl below.
Fricatives. Most varieties have three voiceless sibilants: lamino-alveolar z, apico-
alveolar s ...
8
Ekoid Bantu Languages of Ogoja, Eastern Nigeria, Part 1, ...
One interpretation of the use of the term diaphone by Jones is: "The DIAPHONE
is a family of sounds heard when we compare the speech of 18 Phonemics and
dia-phonemics A Phonemics and phonological analysis B Dia-phonemics.
9
Lighthouses for Kids: History, Science, and Lore with 21 ...
A Canadian named J. P. Northey received a patent for a diaphone fog signal. (
Diaphone means two sounds.) At first, the machine was powered by compressed
air. Later, diesel engines and electric motors provided power to operate the
signal.
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Readings in Linguistics I & II
(4) The term diaphone is used by Palmer following the usage of Jones: 'The
diaphone is a family of sounds heard when we compare the speech of one
person with that of another.' Jones cites [o: ], [ou], [au], [au] as members of the
diaphone ...
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIAPHONE»
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diaphone is used in the context of the following news items.
The Isle of Portland route with Sue Clifford
It turns out that reading “Fog & Mist”, an entry that mentions the “low moans of the diaphone foghorn on the lighthouse at Portland Bill”, was ... «Financial Times, Jul 14»
Before 911, telegraph system alerted fire department
Volunteer departments also would have a Diaphone horn that sounded the box number. This is the system that was used in Fairport. At the age ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Mar 14»
UP lighthouse restoration bolsters tourism, economy, and …
"At the lighthouse, there is a rare original 1936 restored F2T Diaphone foghorn that visitors can listen to, and visitors can also watch a video that ... «Upper Peninsula Second Wave, Dec 13»
Kaleidoscope: Fairport Harbor: A quaint, historic lakeshore village
Its fourth-order Fresnel lens and diaphone fog signal commenced operation in 1925. The breakwater light is now automated and sports a ... «Aurora Advocate, Oct 13»
Foghorns and the Changing Coastal Soundscape
In fact, the iconic “BEEE-ohhh” of the old-fashioned air-powered “diaphone” has virtually disappeared from the score. To my delight, one of the ... «Capital Notes, Apr 12»
Hold the phone! It's quiz time!
... or different etymological histories (e.g., diaphone, in which the -phone of one has a different immediate derivation from that of the other). «OUPblog, Sep 10»
Walter Fanning - lighthouse keeper
... Fanning spent much of his childhood there, fishing for rock cod off the dock, skating around the cistern and blowing the old diaphone foghorn. «San Francisco Chronicle, Dec 08»
San Pablo Bay lighthouse needs new keeper
... for the innkeepers and a small building that houses the original foghorn, a deafening, low-pitched diaphone powered by an air compressor. «San Francisco Chronicle, Nov 08»
Calling attention to sirens
Invented by an amateur organ-maker and sold to the Wurlitzer Organ Co., the so-called diaphone tone generator could be set to produce easily ... «Boston Globe, Dec 04»
