Contents // 1 Conversation and Spoken Prose (1963) 1 // 2 R.P. and Local Accent (1951) 10 // 3 A Phonetician’s View of Verse Structure (1964) 16 // 4 Syllable Quantity and Enclitics in English (1964) 26 // 5 Steele, Monboddo and Garrick (1951) 35 // 6 Forgotten Phoneticians (1948) 45 // 7 What is a ‘Letter’ ? ( 1949) 7 // 8 Writing Systems (1937) 86 // 9 Isaac Pitman (1937) 92 // i ? The Recording of Dialect Material ( 1954) 108 // ii Pseudo-procedures in Linguistics (1963) 114 // 12 Parameters and Phonemes (1964) 120 // 13 Direct Palatography (1957) 125 // 14 On Writing and the Phoneme: two reviews (1954 // and 1950) 131 // 15 A Scottish Vowel (1954) 13 7 // Index i39