1st Edition

A History of English Phonology

By Charles Jones Copyright 1989
330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

This is an attempt to view historical phonological change as an ongoing, recurrent process. The author sees like events occurring at all periods, a phenomenon which he considers is disguised by too great a reliance upon certain characteristics of the scholarly tradition. Thus he argues that those innovations arrived at by speakers of the English language many years ago are not in principle unlike... Read more
1: Aims, methods and models; 2: The Early English period: the beginnings to the thirteenth century; 3: The Middle English period: the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries; 4: The sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries; 5: The eighteenth century to the present day

Biography

Charles Jones