Charles Kenneth Thomas
Charles Kenneth Thomas was a phonetician who received his BA (1922), MA (1924) and Ph.D. from Cornell University (1930). He continued on in that faculty working in the Speech Department for 30 years. He served both as Professor of Speech at Cornell and Director of the Speech Clinic. Thomas published a number of studies of different American dialects with a particular emphasis on those spoken by students attending his classes at Cornell.
Around 1964 he moved Florida and taught courses on the faculty of the University of Florida. Once there, he studied the characteristics of pronunciation of Floridians (Thomas, 1968).
Charles Thomas was married to Ruth Thomas and had two sons, Arthur and Andrew.
Writings by and about Charles Thomas, arranged chronologically
Thomas, C. (1924) The rhetorical practice of John Donne and his sermons, Masters’ Thesis, Cornell University.
Thomas, C. (1930) The rhetoric of Thomas Henry Huxley. Dissertation from Cornell University.
Thomas, C. (1932). Jewish dialect and New York Dialect. American Speech, 7, 5, 321-326.
Thomas, C. (1936) Pronunciation in Upstate New York (VI). American Speech, Dec. Vol. 11, No. 4 pp. 307-313
Thomas, C. (1938) Voice and speech. In J. Winans (Ed.) Speech making. Appleton Century.
Thomas, C. (1939) A composite transcription from Knox County, Tennessee, American Speech, 14, 125-6.
Thomas, C. (1939). Chinese difficulties with English Pronunciation, 4, 255-259.