A Historical Phonology of English

Donka Minkova

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Charts the historical development of the English phonological system

A thorough and fascinating exploration of the evolution of English’ phonological structure, this book traces the history of individual sounds and their representation through Old, Middle, Early Modern and Present Day English.

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1. Periods in the History of English
2. The Phonetic and Phonological Foundations of Sound Change
3. Some Pre-Old English Changes
4. Consonants: the OE system
5. Consonants: from OE to PDE
6. The Vowels of OE
7. Transition
8. Vowel Quality and Quantity in EModE and Later
9. Focus on Prosody: the Evolution of the English Stress System
10. The Linguistic History of English Verse Forms.

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Donka Minkova is Professor of English, UCLA

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