English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Author:   C. Jones
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Edition:   2006 ed.
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9781403947239


Pages:   402
Publication Date:   16 December 2005
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   C. Jones
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2006 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.780kg
ISBN:  

9781403947239


ISBN 10:   1403947236
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   16 December 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Preface PART ONE: THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Background Sound/Symbol Representations: The Case for and Against Manipulation of the Orthography The Sound System: Description and Classification The Vowel Phonology Non-Vowel Phonology PART TWO: THE LATER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Background Sound/Symbol Representations The Sound System: Description and Classification The Vowel Phonology Non-Vowel Phonology PART THREE: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Background The Vowel Phonology Non-Vowel Phonology Bibliography Index

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'This volume relies on a wealth of primary sources, which the author investigates with great accuracy, thus giving a very detailed picture of how Late Modern English commentators approached phonological variation at the segmental level. The comments provided by the authors discussed shed considerable light on how speakers saw their usage and strove to change or maintain it. As a result, this valuable study sets itself at the crossroads between historical phonology, historical dialectology, and historical perceptual dialectology.' Professor Marina Dossena, Universita' degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy '...it is an essential work of reference for any scholar with an interest in the history of English linguistics in this period.' - Joan C. Beal, Historiographia Linguistica


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CHARLES JONES is Emeritus Forbes Professor of English Language at the University of Edinburgh, UK where he served as Professor and Head of Department from 1990 to 2004. He has also held the Chair of English Language at the University of Durham (1978-1990) as well as several Visiting Professorships in the USA. He was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 2001-2003. His main published works are Grammatical Gender in English 950-1250 (1989); A History of English Phonology (1989); A Language Suppressed: The Pronunciation of Scots in the Eighteenth Century (1975);

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