Book Details
Orange Code:25097
Paperback:441 pages
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1. A note on the Companion to A Historical Phonology of English2. Periods in the history of English3. The sounds of English4. Discovering the earliest links: Indo-European – Germanic – Old English5. Consonantal histories: Old English6. Consonantal developments in the second millennium7. The vowels in Old English: spelling, pronunciation. PDE alternations traced back to OE8. Vowel quality and quantity in Early Modern English and later9. The evolution of the English stress system10. Early English verse forms: from Cædmon to Chaucer
Description:
Phonological evolution is a major component of the overall history of the language; the subject matter is both significant on its own terms and relevant in curricular terms. This book describes the segmental and prosodic changes in the history of English, provides analyses of these changes both as phonological events and in relation to the evolution of interlocking aspects of earlier English and highlights the relevance of the topics and possibly generate further interest by projecting historical phonological change onto Present-Day English and its varieties. The development of the English sound system is probably the best studied part of the history of the language, however no up-to-date, student-friendly survey exists: this book fills the gap.
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