On early English pronunciation
Subtitle: 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 rearrangement of Prof. 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 Barclay on French, 1521
By: By Alexander J. Ellis
Contributors: Child, Francis James, 1825-1896; Salesbury, William, 1520?-1600?; Schmeller, Johann Andreas, 1785-1852; Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552; Bonaparte, Louis-Lucien, prince, 1813-1891; Winkler, Johan, 1840-1916
Series: Publications (Chaucer Society) -- no. 5; [Early English Text Society (Series) -- 14]; Philological Society publications
Publisher: Pub. for the Philological Society by Asher & co., and for the Early English Text Society and the Chaucer Society, by Trübner & Co.
Published: 1871
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 996
Subjects: Phonology; Phonetic alphabet; Pronunciation; English language; Dialects
Notes: Paged continuously from Part I.
Table of contents: title: Illustrations of the pronunciation of the XIVth and XVIth centuries. Chaucer, Gower, Wycliffe, Spenser, Shakespeare. Salesbury, Barcley, Hart, Bullokar, Gill. Pronouncing vocabulary.