Chaucerian Phonemics : Evidence and Interpretation
- Author / Editor
- Minkova, Donka, and Robert P. Stockwell.
Chaucerian Phonemics : Evidence and Interpretation
- Published
- Raymond Hickey and Stanislaw Puppel, eds. Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on His 60th Birthday. 2 vols. (Berlin and New York: Mouton, 1997), 1: 29-57.
- Description
- Identifies inconsistencies in scholarly descriptions of how to pronounce Chaucerian English, and demonstrates that historical data are inconclusive in many phonemic situations, including long vowels, consonant clusters, final -e, and others. Suggests that Chaucer's English be reconstructed in a form closer to Shakespeare's than to Alfred's.
- Contributor
- Stockwell, Robert P.
- Alternative Title
- Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on His 60th Birthday.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.