ABSTRACT
Paul Passy (1906: 39) mentioned ‘prononciation familière ralentie’ in reference to pronunciation, in his opinion, best suited for teaching purposes. This style of pronunciation was later referred to as ‘slow conversational style’ ( Jones 1945: 127) or that of ‘natural, unstudied but reasonably careful and not rapid conversation’ ( Jones 1950: 9), and on it Jones based his formulation of the phoneme. The pronunciation of individual words as indicated in various pronouncing dictionaries, etc. is largely what one would expect in such a style.
