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 F.J. Child's memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower, and reprints of the rare tracts by Salesburv on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barclay on French, 1521

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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 F.J. Child's memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower, and reprints of the rare tracts by Salesburv on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barclay on French, 1521

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1875, Published for the Philological Society by Asher & Co., and for the Early English Text Society and the Chaucer Society, by Trübner & Co .
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1871, Published for the Philological Society by Asher & Co., and for the Early English Text Society and the Chaucer Society, by Trübner & Co .
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Table of Contents

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 sounds in English writing
pt. 3. Illustrations of the pronunciation of the XIVth and XVth centuries. Chaucer, Gower, Wycliffe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Salesbury, Barclay, Hart, Bullokar, Gill, Pronunciation vocabulary
pt. 4. ... 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
pt.5. Existing dialectal as compared with West Saxon pronunciation. With two maps of the dialect districts.

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Issued jointly by the Philological Society, the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society; appearing as no. 1, 4-5, 1, 25 in 2d series of the publications of the Chaucer Society, no. 2, 7, 14, 23, 56, in extra series of the publications of the Early English Text Society and without number in the Philological Society publications.

An abridgement of the 5th part was published by the English Dialect Society, 1899, in v. 24 under title: "English dialects, their sounds and homes."

Includes bibliographical references.

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[Early English Text Society. Extra series -- 2, 7, 14, 23, 56], Early English Text Society (Series) -- 2, 7, 14, 23, 56.

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