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Author Minkova, Donka, 1944-

Title A historical phonology of English / Donka Minkova.

Publication Info. Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2014.
©2014
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Description 1 online resource (441 pages) : illustrations, tables.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced
Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Periods in the history of English -- The sounds of English -- Discovering the earliest links: Indo-European-Germanic-Old English -- Consonantal histories: Old English -- Consonantal developments in the second millennium -- The vowels in Old English: spelling, pronunciation, PDE alternations traced back to OE -- The vowels in Middle English. Dialects. Spelling innovations. Vowel quality and quantity. PDE alternations traced back to ME -- Vowel quality and quantity in Early Modern English and later -- The evolution of the English stress system -- Early English verse forms: from Cædmon to Chaucer.
Summary This work describes the segmental and prosodic changes in the history of English. It provides analyses of these changes both as phonological events and in relation to the evolution of interlocking aspects of earlier English.
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Subject English language -- Phonology, Historical.
English language -- Phonology, Historical.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Minkova, Donka. Historical phonology of English. Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, ©2014 xv, 424 pages Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced. 9780748634675
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