Let's talk about the relationship between the film's story and the phoneticians. The prototype of the protagonist Henry Higgins is the last century British phoneticist Henry Sweet and the more well-known phonetician Daniel Jones (phonetician). The name Jones is very familiar. He is the inventor of the DJ phonetic symbol and the first phonetic symbol system to record English. At the same time, he has recorded a lot of languages, including Cantonese. He can be regarded as the originator of modern phonetics. For example, Henry Sweet's name is unfamiliar, and his experience cannot be considered "miserable". Although he is talented, he has always been depressed, his academic career is not smooth, and the evening scene is very bleak. About Henry The prototype of Higgins, the early people thought it was Henry Sweet, who had a bad life, but recent documents show that the prototype is more likely to be the well-known Daniel Jones. The reason is mainly because of Bernard Shaw himself and Daniel Jones. He has a close relationship and has also visited its voice laboratory in London, and Daniel Jones' identity and status as a gentleman in British society is very similar to Henry Higgins in the script. O(∩_∩)O haha~, the film's Perhaps one of the charms is that we can find out the character and demeanor of the originator of phonetics when he was young. Not only that, but also received strong support from phonetics during the production of the film. The cover of this blog post comes from Working photo of the film. The director hired the famous phonologist Peter Ladefoged at that time. In fact, he and Daniel Jones are the relationship between the master and the grandson. Ladefoged's teacher is David Abercrombie (linguist), and he is Daniel Jones It is also a fate that this phonetics spans continents and time. Ladefoged is not only the phonetics training teacher of Rex Harrison, the male protagonist at that time, but also responsible for the production and research of all the voice equipment and specific pronunciation methods in the play, and even In the film there is a dubbing is done by him.
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