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Ida C. Ward

Ida Caroline Ward was a British linguist working mainly on African languages who did influential work in the domains of phonology and tonology. Her 1933 collaboration with Diedrich Hermann Westermann, Practical Phonetics for Students of African languages, has been reprinted many times. African languages she worked on include Efik (1933), Igbo, Mende (1944), and Yoruba.

Works
• Ward, Ida C. (1923) Defects of Speech: Their Nature and Their Cure. E.P. Dutton. • Armstrong, Lilias E. and Ward, Ida C. (1926) Handbook of English Intonation, B. G. Teubner, Leipzig, Germany • Westermann, Diedrich Hermann and Ward, Ida C. (1933) Practical phonetics for students of African languages. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute • Ward, Ida C. (1933) The phonetic and tonal structure of Efik. Cambridge: Heffer. • Ward, Ida C. (1936) An introduction to the Ibo language. Cambridge: Heffer. • Ward, Ida C. (1937) Practical suggestions for the learning of an African language in the field, Africa, supplement, vol. 10, no. 2. London. • Ward, Ida C. (1939) The Phonetics of English. Heffer, Cambridge. • Ward, Ida C. (1939) The Pronunciation of Twi. Heffer, Cambridge. • Ward, Ida C. (1941) Ibo dialects and the development of a common language. Cambridge: Heffer. • Ward, Ida C. (1944) 'A phonetic introduction to Mende', in Crosby, K.H., An introduction to the study of Mende. Cambridge: Heffer. • Ward, Ida C. (1952) An introduction to the Yoruba language. Cambridge: Heffer & Sons. ==References==
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