On early English pronunciation, with especial 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 Salesbury on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barclay on French, 1521.
London: published for the Philogogical Society by Asher & Co., & Berlin, for the Early English Text Society and the Chaucer Society Society, by Trübner & Co. 1869-89, [i.e. New York: Haskell House, 1969]. Facsimile edition, 5 volumes in 6, 8vo, very good and sound in original blue-green cloth. Part I: On the pronunciation of the XIVth, XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth centuries; Part II: 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; Part III: Illustrations of the pronunciation of the XIVth and XVth centuries. Chaucer, Gower, Wycliffe, Spenser, Shakspere, Salesbury, Barclay, Hart, Bullokar, Gill, Pronunciation vocabulary; Part IV: 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; Part V: Existing dialectal as compared with West Saxon pronunciation. With two maps of the dialect districts. Item #32505
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