Dennis Butler Fry | |
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| Born | 3 November 1907 Stockbridge, Hampshire, United Kingdom |
| Died | 21 March 1983 (aged 75) London, United Kingdom |
| Known for | Works on English phonetics |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | Phonetics |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Doctoral students | Neil Smith |
Dennis Butler Fry (3 November 1907 – 21 March 1983) was a British linguist and Professor of Experimental Phonetics at University College London. Through experiments he conducted in the 1950s and 1960s, Fry demonstrated that lexical stress correlated with loudness, pitch, and duration of the affected vowel.[1][2]