- The Handbook of the International Phonetic Association(Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp 194-197.
- M K C MacMahon: 'The International Phonetic Association: the first 100 years', Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol 16, 1986, pp 30-38
- Principles of the International Phonetic Association, London: Department of Phonetics, University College London, 1949, inside covers. Also reproduced in: Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol 40, 3, 2010. pp 299-358.
- R W Albright: The International Phonetic Alphabet: Its Backgrounds and Development (Publication Seven of the Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics, 1958); also Part III of International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol 24, No 1. B. 1958.
- For reproductions of some earlier IPA charts, including the first one in 1888, see MacMahon, M K C, 'Phonetic notation', in Daniels, P T & Bright, W (eds), The World's Writing Systems, OUP: New York & Oxford, 1996, pp 821-46.
- The part played by Paul Passy, Daniel Jones and other phoneticians in the development of the Association is set out in detail in Collins, Beverley & Mees, Inger, The Real Professor Higgins: the life and career of Daniel Jones, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999.
- Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol 40, 3, 2010. pp 299-358. This issue includes articles on the '40th anniversary of JIPA', 'Joining the IPA — 100 years ago', 'Sample articles from Le Maître Phonétique', and the 'Principles of the International Phonetic Association'.
Presidents of the IPA
| 2023-: | Katerina Nicolaidis |
| 2019-23: | Michael Ashby |
| 2015-19: | Patricia Keating |
| 2011-15: | John Esling |
| 2010-11: | none |
| 2007-10: | Gösta Bruce (d. 2010) |
| 2003-07: | John Wells |
| 1999-03: | Klaus Kohler |
| 1995-99: | John Ohala |
| 1991-95: | John Laver |
| 1985-91: | Peter Ladefoged |
| 1984-85: | A. C. Gimson (d. 1985) |
| 1977-83: | none listed in JIPA issues |
| 1969-77: | S. K. (Suniti Kumar) Chatterji (d. May 1977) |
| 1967-69: | none listed in Le Maître Phonétique (MF) issues |
| 1950-67: | Daniel Jones |
| 1940-50: | none listed in MF issues |
| 1927-40: | Paul Passy (d. 1940) |
| 1917-27: | none |
| (MF was not published 1915-22) | |
| 1888-1917: | Wilhelm Viëtor (d. 1917) [Henry Sweet, Honorary President, 1888-1912] |
| 1886-88: | Paul Passy [E. Oswald Kenyon, President of the Phonetic Teachers' Association (FTA), from January to April 1888] |
For further information about any aspect of the history of the IPA, contact:
Michael K C MacMahon
Phonetics Laboratory
English Language
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
UK
tel: +44 141 330 6340
e-mail: mike.macmahon@glasgow.ac.uk
