On Chaucer's Stressed Vowel Phonemes

Author / Editor
Finnie, W. Bruce.

Title
On Chaucer's Stressed Vowel Phonemes

Published
Chaucer Review 9 (1975): 337-41.

Description
In two recent articles discussing Chaucer's assonance (JEGP, 71; PMLA, 88) Percy Adams fails to make critical distinctions between phonemes that differ quantitatively, thus seriously undermining his own conclusions about assonance and obscuring accepted, traditional concepts of Middle English phonemics.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.