A history of modern colloquial English /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
B. Blackwell,
1936.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Alphabetical list of sources, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries (p. [xi]-xv)
- Remarks on phonetic notation
- Table of phonetic symbols used in this book
- Introductory
- Dialect types in Middle English and their survival in the modern period
- The English of the fifteenth century
- The English language from Henry VIII to James I
- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- The history of English pronunciation in the modern period; the vowels in stressed syllables
- The vowels of unstressed syllables
- Changes in consonantal sounds
- Notes on inflexions
- Colloquial idiom
- Appendices
- Supplementary.