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Peculiarities of Middle English Spelling

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Letters indicating vowels Letters indicating consonants
Single letters
a [a] с[s] or [k]
y, as well as i [i] f [f]
о [o] or [u] g [d3] or [g] j [d3] k [к] s[s] or [z] v(often spelt as u) [v] y [j]
   
Digraphs
ее [e:J or [a:] ch, tch [ts]
ie [e:] dg [d3]
oo [o:] or [ر:] gh [xl or [x']
ou [u:] or [ou] qu [kw]
ow [u:] or [ou] th [ð] or [θ] sh, sch, ssh [s] wh [hw]


Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote

[xwan 'θat ap'rille 'wiθ his ' su:rəs 'so:tə]

The droghte of March hath perced.to the roote,

[θə 'druxt of 'marts haθ 'persəd 'to: θə 'rоtə

And bathed every veyne in swich licour,

[and 'ba:ðəd 'evri 'vein in 'swits li'ku:rl

|Of which verhi engendred is the flour;

[of 'xwits ver'tju: en'd3endred 'is θə 'flu:r ]

(When April with his sweet showers

The draught of March has pierced to the root,

And bathed every vein in such liquor,

Of Which (whose) virtue (power) engendered is the flower...)

Lecture 8

PhoneticChanges in Middle and Early New English

Hours

Plan

1. Word accentuation in ME and ENE.

2. Changes in u stressed vowels.

3. Quantaive and qualitative changes in stressed vowels.

4. Evolution of consonants.

 

Literature

Rastorgueva T.A. A History of English. M.,1983; M.,2005. - p.188-218

Ilyish B. History of the English language. Л. 1972. – p 160-174, 254-273, 299-303.

Reznik R.V., Sorokina T.S., Reznik I.V. A History of the English Language. M., 2001. – p. 126-145.

Аракин В.Д. История английского языка. М., 1985. – c. 110-123, 187-207.

Бруннер К. История английского языка. М., 2003. – Т.1, с. 202-259, 262-276, 285-322.

Иванова И.П., Чахоян Л.П., Беляева Т.М. История английского языка. СПб., 1998. с. 69-97.

Смирницкий А.И. Лекции по истории английского языка (средний и новый период). М., 1998. – 52-94, 154-181.

Word stress. New accentual patterns. Stress in loan-words: recessive and rhythmic tendencies. Phonological function of stress: distinguishing a verb from a noun.

Changes in unstressed vowels. The tendency towards phonetic reduction. Loss of unstressed vowels. The appearance of new unstressed vowels.

Main trends in the changes of stressed vowels. Quantitative vowel changes in Early Middle English. Phonetic conditions of lengthening and shortening. Restrictions to the rules. Qualitative vowel changes.

Quantitative Vowel Changes in Late Old English and Early Middle English

Phonetic conditions Change illustrated Examples  
      OE ME NE
Before homorganic consonant sequenc­es: Vowels become long cild child [tsi:ld] child
sonorant plus plosive   findan finden [fi:ndən] .find
(Id, nd, mb)   climban climben ['кli:mbən] climb
    cold cold ['ko:ldJ cold
    feld field [fe:ld] field
    fundon founden ['fu:ndən] found (Past of find)
    gold gold [go:ld] gold
Before other Vowels be- fiftfs fifty ['fifti] fifty
consonant come short fedde fedde ['feddə] fed
sequences   mette mette ['mettə] met
    wisdom wisdom ['wizdəm] wisdom
In open syllables Vowels be- mete mete ['me:tə] meat
  come long and more open stelan   stelen ['ste:lən] steal
      macian maken ['ma:kən] make
      talu tale [tа:1ə] tale
    nosu nose ['no:zə] nose
    stolen stolen ['sto:lən] stolen
    yfel yvel, evel [i:vəl] [e:vəl] evil
    duru doore ['do:rə] door

Development of OE [y] and [y:] in ME dialects

 

OE ME   NE
fyllan Kentish fellen ['fellən] fill
  West Midland and South Western fullen ['fyllən, fullən]
  East Midland and Northern Fillen [‘fillən]
mýs Kentish Mees [me:s] mice
  West Midland and South Western mus, muis [my:s, mu:s]
  East Midland and Northern mis, mice [mi:s]
         

 

OE ME   NE
stān Northern stan(e) [sta:nə] stone
other fialects stoon, stone [sto:n]
ald Northern ald [a:ld] old
other dialects old [o:ld]

Development of Old English [æ, ǽ] in Middle English

OE →ME OE ME NE
æ→a þǽt that [θat] that
  earm arm [arm] arm
  blacu blak [blak] black
æ:→ε: strǽt street [strε:t] street

Splitting of OE [a:] in Middle English

OE ME   NE
lond, land West Midlands lond land
  other dialects land  
Lon3, lan3 West Midlands long long
  other dialects lang  


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