Duplication of Vowels in Middle English Spelling

Author / Editor
Markus, Manfred.

Title
Duplication of Vowels in Middle English Spelling

Published
Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger, eds. Language Contact in the History of English (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2001), pp. 217-31.

Description
Markus examines several features of Chaucer's spelling--digraphs, vowel doubling, "ee" versus "e"--drawing data from ParsT and arguing that inconsistencies in vowel-doubling are related to vowel length's "having lost its former phonemic identity." Uses data from the Innsbruck Computer Archive of Machine-readable English Texts.

Alternative Title
Language Contact in the History of English.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Parson and His Tale.