On early English pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere 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 re-arrangement of 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 (i.e. Welsh), 1567, and by Barcley on French, 1521

Author(s)

• Ellis, Alexander John
• Child, Francis James
• Salesbury, William
• Schmeller, Johann Andreas
• Barcley, Alexander
• Bonaparte, Louis-Lucien, prince
• Winkler, Johan

Bibliographic Information

On early English pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere 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 re-arrangement of 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 (i.e. Welsh), 1567, and by Barcley on French, 1521

by Alexander J. Ellis

（Early English Text Society extra series, 2, 7, 14, 23, 56）

Greenwood Press, 1968

• pt. 1
• pt. 2
• pt. 3
• pt. 4
• pt. 5

Note

On spine: The Early English Text Society. E.S

Reprint of the 1869-1874 ed

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 sound in English writing -- pt. 3. Illustrations of the pronunciation of the XIVth and XVIth centuries. Chaucer, Gower, Wycliffe, Spenser, Shakspere, Salesbury, Barcley, Hart, Pullokar, Gill. Pronouncing vocabulary -- pt. 4. pp. 997-1432. Illustrations of the pronunciation of English in the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth centuries. Lediard, Bonaparte, Schmeller, Winkler. Received American and Irish pronunciation of English. Phonological introduction to dialects -- pt. 5. (pp. 1*-88*, 1433-2267) Existing dialectal as compared with West Saxon pronunciation

Details

• NCID: BA06347252
• LCCN: 68030998
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 5 v. (2267 p.)
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PE1133
  • DC : 421/.52
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English language -- Phonology
  • LCSH : English language -- Pronunciation
  • LCSH : English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500
  • LCSH : English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700
  • LCSH : Phonetic alphabet
  • LCSH : English language -- Dialects -- Phonology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA21358571