SPEECH HEARING and LANGUAGE work in progress 1993 VOL 7 University College London Department of Phonetics and Linguistics pages 201-232: Shitara, Y. Survey of American pronunciation preferences – a preliminary report Note: Sadly, a ‘preliminary report’ is all Yuko Shitara ever produced. She later abandoned the PhD project for which this was the essential fieldwork.

Her findings are an important contribution to the documentation of phonetic variability in American English, and were incorporated into the second edition of my Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 2000.

I am delighted to make her work known to a wider audience by putting it on the Web.

— John Wells, October 2003.