Linguistic Change and the Great Vowel Shift in English
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Linguistic Change and the Great Vowel Shift in English

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eBook - ePub

Linguistic Change and the Great Vowel Shift in English

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This title was originally published in 1972.
This title was originally published in 1972.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9780520315846
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS
  5. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
  6. METHODOLOGY
  7. QUESTIONS RELATING TO SOUND CHANGE:
  8. SCOPE OF THE STUDY
  9. ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY
  10. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ME z, Û
  11. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ME ë
  12. THE TRADITIONAL LONG VOWELS
  13. OUTLINE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL THEORY
  14. GRADUAL VS. DISCRETE SOUND CHANGE
  15. CONSTRAINTS ON SOUND CHANGE
  16. JOHN HART: 1551, 1569, 1570
  17. JACQUES BELLOT: 1580
  18. WILLIAM BULLOKAR: 1580
  19. RICHARD MULCASTER: 1582
  20. ROBERT ROBINSON: 1617
  21. Alexander Gil
  22. CHARLES BUTLER: 1633
  23. SIMON DAINES: 1640
  24. Richard Hodges
  25. JOHN WALLIS: 1653
  26. JOHN WILKINS: 1668
  27. WILLIAM HOLDER: 1669
  28. ELISHA COLES: 1674
  29. FRANCIS LODWICK: 1686
  30. HEINRICH KELLERMAN: 1686
  31. CHRISTOPHER COOPER: 1687
  32. THE WRITING SCHOLAR’S COMPANION: 1695
  33. THOMAS TUITE: 1726
  34. JAMES DOUGLAS: cl740
  35. NOAH WEBSTER: 1789
  36. CONCLUSIONS
  37. THE EVIDENCE FROM RHYME
  38. THE EVIDENCE OF OCCASIONAL SPELLINGS
  39. THE EVIDENCE FROM WRITERS OF SHORTHAND SYSTEMS
  40. CONCLUSIONS
  41. /I/, //- /ey/, /ow/: EVIDENCE FROM OTHER LANGUAGES
  42. /I/ — /ey/: EVIDENCE FROM ENGLISH DIALECTS
  43. /Ï/ — /ey/: EVIDENCE FROM SOUND CHANGES CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS
  44. EVIDENCE FROM OTHER LANGUAGES FOR THE ADDITION OF EXCHANGE RULES TO A GRAMMAR
  45. EVIDENCE FROM ENGLISH DIALECTS FOR THE ADDITION OF EXCHANGE RULES TO A GRAMMAR
  46. EVIDENCE FROM NORTHERN DIALECTS AGAINST THE VOWEL SHIFT RESULTING FROM THE ADDITION OF AN EXCHANGE RULE
  47. EVIDENCE FROM OTHER LANGUAGES AGAINST THE VOWEL SHIFT RESULTING FROM THE ADDITION OF AN EXCHANGE RULE
  48. LOSS OF INTELLIGIBILITY WITH VOWEL EXCHANGE: EVIDENCE FROM OTHER LANGUAGES
  49. EVIDENCE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF EARLY ENGLISH LONG VOWELS AS DIPHTHONGS
  50. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ME ï, ü
  51. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ME è
  52. CONDITIONED DEVELOPMENTS OF ME a, o
  53. THE MIDDLE ENGLISH DIPHTHONGS AND LONG TENSE VOWELS
  54. THREE- VERSUS FOUR-VOWEL-HEIGHT SYSTEMS
  55. LEXICAL DIFFUSION OF SOUND CHANGE
  56. EXTENSION OF SOUND CHANGE BY RULE SIMPLIFICATION
  57. SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS
  58. NOTES
  59. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  60. INDEX