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; includinga 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.; Salesbury, William, 1520?-1600?.; Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552.; Early English Text Society.
Publisher: Asher, for the Philological Society; Trübner, for the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2267
Subjects: English language -- Phonology.; English language -- Pronunciation.; English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500.; English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700.; Phonetic alphabet.; English language -- Dialects -- Phonology.