A Note on Chaucer's Pronunciation of French "u."
- Author / Editor
- Storms, G.
A Note on Chaucer's Pronunciation of French "u."
- Published
- English Studies 41 (1960): 305-8.
- Description
- Offers evidence (rhymes and phonetic patterns in English and French) to indicate "Chaucer having pronounced 'iu' in French loanwords, with the stress on the first element of the diphthong." Further this "'iu' coalesced with earlier 'ew', 'iw', and, later on, developed into the rising diphthong 'jū' of 'new', 'knew' and 'due'."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies