Title: 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
Subjects: Dialects, English language, Phonetic alphabet, Phonology, Pronunciation
People: Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400), William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, Middle English, 1100-1500