On early English pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakespeare 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 ... F.J. Child's memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower, and ... the rare tracts by Salesbury on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barclay
By: by Alexander J. Ellis
Contributors: Salesbury, William, 1520?-1600?; Schmeller, Johann Andreas, 1785-1852.; Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552.; Bonaparte, Louis Lucien, prince, 1812-1891.; Winkler, Johan, 1840-; Child, Francis James, 1825-1896.  Observations on the 1anguage of Chaucer and Gower.
Series: Early English Text Society. Extra series -- no. 2, 7, 14, 23, 56
Publisher: Pub. for the Early English text society
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400.; English language -- Phonology.; English language -- Pronunciation.; English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500.; English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700.; Phonetic alphabet.; English language -- Dialects -- Phonology.
Notes: Titles of v.4 and 5 differ slightly.  Vol. 5 has imprint: London. Pub. for the Philological society, the Early English text society, and the Chaucer society, by Trübner ? co., 1889.

Paged continuously; v. 5 has also separate pagination.

Issued jointly by the Philological society, the Early English text society, and the Chaucer society; appearing as no. 1, 4-5, 11, 25 in 2d series of the publications of the Chaucer society, no. 2, 7, 14, 23, 56, in extra series of the publications of the Early English text society and without number in the Philogical society publications.

An abridgement of the 5th part was published by the English dialect society, 1899, in v.24 under title:  "English dialects, their sounds and homes."

Issued in boards.

pt.4.  Illustrations of the pronunciation of English in the XVIIth, XVIIIth, XIXth centuries ... -- pt.5. Existing dialectal as compared with West Saxon pronunciation.  With two maps of the dialect districts.

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Table of contents: title: pt.1.  On the pronunciation of the XIVth, XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth centuries.; title: pt.2. On the pronunciation of the XIIIth and previous centuries of Anglosaxon, Icelandic, Old Norse and Gothic, with chronological tables of the value of letters and expressions of sounds in English writing.; title: pt.3. Illustrations of the pronunciation of the XIVth and XVth centuries.  Chaucer, Gower, Wycliffe, Spenser, Shakspere, Salesbury, Barclay, Hart, Bullokar, Gill.  Pronunciation vocabulary.