In Memoriam John Kelly (1936–2023)

He was born in Davyhulme, a small town on the outskirts of Manchester on 23 August 1936.He was proud of his Northern roots.One of the first academic articles he published was based on the dialect of his home town, as was one of his last academic conference presentations, in 2000 in Sankelmark Germany, where he returned to the same subject.John read French and German at the University of Manchester and graduated in 1959 with a First Class Honours degree in Modern Languages.In 1961 he began postgraduate study at Edinburgh in the Department of Phonetics