On early English pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, containing an investigation of the correspondence of writing with speech in England from the Anglosaxon period to the present day, preceded by a systematic notation of all spoken sounds by means of the ordinary printing types : including: a re-arrangement of F. J. Child's memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower, and reprints of the rare tracts by Salesbury on English, 1

• Record Nr.: UNINA990005067180403321
• Autore: Ellis, Alexander John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : Greenwood Press, 1968
• Descrizione fisica: 5 v. ; 23 cm
• Locazione: FLFBC
• Collocazione: CR 3401(1); CR 3401(2); CR 3401(3); CR 3401(4); CR 3401(5)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1.: On the pronunciation of the 14th, 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries / by Alexander J. Ellis 2.: On the pronunciation of the 13th and previous centuries, of Anglosaxon, Icelandic, Old Norse and Gothic, with chronological tables of the value of letters and expressions of sound in English writing / by Alexander J. Ellis 3.: Illustrations of the pronunciation or the 14th and 16th centuries : Chaucer, Gower, Wycliffe, Spenser, Shakespere, Salisbury, Barcley, Hart, Pullokar, Gill : pronouncing vocabulary / Alexander J. Ellis 4.: Illustrations of the pronunciation of English in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries : Lediard, Bonaparte, Schmeller, Winkler : received American and Irish pronuncia 5.: Existing dialectal as compared with West Saxon pronunciation / Alexander J. Ellis