On early English pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer : containing an investigation of the correspondence of writing with speech in England from the Anglosaxon period to the present day, preceded by a systematic notation of all spoken sounds by means of the ordinary printing types : including a re-arrangement of F.J. Child's memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower, and reprints of the rare tracts by Salesbury on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barcley on French, 1521 / by Alexander J. Ellis.

Author
Ellis, Alexander John, 1814-1890 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Greenwood Press, 1968.
Description
5 v. (2267 p.) : fold maps ; 23 cm.

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Reprint of the 1869 ed.
Contents
  • pt. 1. On the pronunciation of the XIVth, XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth centuries
  • pt. 2. On the pronunciation of the XIIIth and previous centuries, of Anglosaxon, Icelandic, Old Norse and Gothic, with chronological tables of the value of letters and expressions of sounds in English writing
  • pt. 3. Illustrations of the pronunciation of the XIVth and XVth centuries. Chaucer, Gower, Wycliffe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Salesbury, Barcl ay, Hart, Bullokar, Gill, Pronunciation vocabulary
  • pt. 4. Illustrations of the pronunciation of English in the XVIIth, XVIIIth, and XIXth centuries ... Received American and Irish pronunciation of English. Abstracts of Schmeller's treatise on Bavarian dialects, and Winkler's Low German and Friesian Dialecticon, and Prince L.L. Bonaparte's vowel and consonant lists. Phonological introduction to dialects
  • pt. 5. Existing dialectal as compared with West Saxon pronunciation. With two maps of the dialect districts.
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Early English pronunciation
LCCN
68030998 //r85
OCLC
2084
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