On early English pronunciation : with special reference to Shakespeare 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 rearrangement of Prof. F.J. Child's memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower, and reprints of the rare tracts by Salesburv on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barclay on French, 1521. By Alexander J. Ellis ...

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Ellis, Alexander John, 1814-1890 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Pub. for the Philological Society by Asher & Co., and for the Early English Text Society and the Chaucer Society, by Trübner & Co., 1869-89.
Description
5 v. 2 fold. maps (incl. front., v. 5) 23 cm.

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Related work(s)
Child, Francis James, 1825-1896. Observations on the language of Chaucer and Gower. [Browse]
Series
  • Chaucer Society publications. Second series 1, 4, 5, 11, 25. [More in this series]
  • Early English Text Society (Series). Extra series 2, 7, 14, 23, 56. [More in this series]
  • Chaucer Society. [Publications] Second series. 1, 4, 5, 11, 25
  • Early English Text Society. Extra series, 2, 7, 14, 23, 56
Notes
  • Titles of v. 4 and 5 differ slightly. Vol. 5 has imprint: London, Pub. for the Philological Society, the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society, by Trübner & Co., 1889.
  • Issued jointly by the Philological Society, the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society; appearing as no. 1, 4-5, 1, 25 in 2d series of the publications of the Chaucer Society, no. 2, 7, 14, 23, 56, in extra series of the publications of the Early English Text Society and without number in the Philological Society publications.
  • An abridgement of the 5th part was published by the English Dialect Society, 1899, in v. 24 under title: "English dialects, their sounds and homes."
  • Issued in boards.
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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, Shakspere, Salesbury, Barclay, 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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^^^11011837^
OCLC
3951183
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H - S
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