[1] After graduating in South Africa, she studied phonetics in the late 1920’s with Daniel Jones at University College London.
She later worked as a lecturer in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London under J.R.Firth.
[4] She undertook the major task of editing and completing The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu when its author, Lilias Armstrong died suddenly in 1937.
[5] Honikman’s career continued with a lectureship in the Department of Phonetics at the University of Leeds, under the headship of P.A.D.
[7] Although she was not, and did not claim to be, the originator of this idea,[8] her article is widely cited in discussion of articulatory settings, an area of growing interest to language teachers.