Chaucer's Bird Sounds

Author / Editor
Glowka, Arthur W.

Title
Chaucer's Bird Sounds

Published
Language Quarterly 21 (1983): 15-17.

Description
In PF, NPT, TC, ManT, and MerT, Chaucer uses onomatopoeic bird talk for puns, verbal wit, irony, e.g., finds hints in MerT of May as turtle-dove-cuckoo.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.