On early English pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer
Subtitle: 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, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barcley on French, 1521.
Contributors: Child, Francis James, 1825-1896.; Salesbury, William, 1520?-1600?; Schmeller, Johann Andreas, 1785-1852.; Barcley, Alexander, 1475?-1552.; Bonaparte, Louis-Lucien, prince, 1813-1891.; Winkler, Johan, 1840-1916.; Early English Text Society.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2267
Subjects: English language -- Great Britain -- Phonology.; English language -- Great Britain -- Pronunciation.; English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Pronunciation.; English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Pronunciation.; Phonetic alphabet.; English language -- Dialects -- England -- Phonology.
Notes: On spine: The Early English Text Society.
Reprint of the 1869 ed.