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A Historical Phonology of English / Donka Minkova.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced : ETELAAPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748634699
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 421.5 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1133 .M565 2014eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and symbols -- A note on the Companion to A Historical Phonology of English -- 1 Periods in the history of English -- 2 The sounds of English -- 3 Discovering the earliest links: Indo- European – Germanic – Old English -- 4 Consonantal histories: Old English -- 5 Consonantal developments in the second millennium -- 6 The vowels in Old English: spelling, pronunciation. PDE alternations traced back to OE -- 7 The vowels in Middle English. Dialects. Spelling innovations. Vowel quality and quantity. PDE alternations traced back to ME -- 8 Vowel quality and quantity in Early Modern English and later -- 9 The evolution of the English stress system -- 10 Early English verse forms: from Cædmon to Chaucer -- Bibliography -- Word Index -- Name Index -- Subject Index
Summary: Charts the historical development of the English phonological systemGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748634682','ISBN:9780748634699','ISBN:9780748634975','ISBN:9780748677559','ISBN:9780748677542']);A thorough and fascinating exploration of the evolution of English’ phonological structure, this book traces the history of individual sounds and their representation through Old, Middle, Early Modern and Present Day English.Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book covers the sounds of English, consonantal histories, Middle English dialects, vowel quality and quantity in Early Modern English, the English stress system and Early English verse forms to demonstrate how the present form of the language is indebted to its past.Key FeaturesPlaces linguistic findings into historical, literary and social contextsExplains Modern English’s phonological features in terms of its developmentPlease click on the following link to download the online companion to be used together with the book: Online Companion to A Historical Phonology of English"
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and symbols -- A note on the Companion to A Historical Phonology of English -- 1 Periods in the history of English -- 2 The sounds of English -- 3 Discovering the earliest links: Indo- European – Germanic – Old English -- 4 Consonantal histories: Old English -- 5 Consonantal developments in the second millennium -- 6 The vowels in Old English: spelling, pronunciation. PDE alternations traced back to OE -- 7 The vowels in Middle English. Dialects. Spelling innovations. Vowel quality and quantity. PDE alternations traced back to ME -- 8 Vowel quality and quantity in Early Modern English and later -- 9 The evolution of the English stress system -- 10 Early English verse forms: from Cædmon to Chaucer -- Bibliography -- Word Index -- Name Index -- Subject Index

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Charts the historical development of the English phonological systemGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748634682','ISBN:9780748634699','ISBN:9780748634975','ISBN:9780748677559','ISBN:9780748677542']);A thorough and fascinating exploration of the evolution of English’ phonological structure, this book traces the history of individual sounds and their representation through Old, Middle, Early Modern and Present Day English.Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book covers the sounds of English, consonantal histories, Middle English dialects, vowel quality and quantity in Early Modern English, the English stress system and Early English verse forms to demonstrate how the present form of the language is indebted to its past.Key FeaturesPlaces linguistic findings into historical, literary and social contextsExplains Modern English’s phonological features in terms of its developmentPlease click on the following link to download the online companion to be used together with the book: Online Companion to A Historical Phonology of English"

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

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