Therefore, such instruction is rarely effective when given to an entire class. Doubled consonants and consonant clusters. Only low front and back vowels and diphthongs were affected. The vowel of the stressed syllable was fronted or raised. Prosody-Patterns of stress recorded only unsystematically.
Poetry offers insight.
Root syllables took the major stress. The Futhorc-a runic alphabet developed early in the first millennium among the speakers of Germanic languages. Based loosely on the Roman alphabet, perhaps. Used primarily for ritual inscriptions. The Latin alphabet-brought by the Christian missionaries to England and used with some runic additions to produce Old English manuscripts.