25.3481, Books: A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period: Sweet

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Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:48:43
From: Joyce Reid [jreid at cambridge.org]
Subject: A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period: Sweet

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Title: A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period 
Subtitle: With Full Word-Lists 
Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/historical-linguistics/history-english-sounds-earliest-period-full-word-lists 

Author: Henry Sweet

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108075602 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 41.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108075602 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 26.99

Abstract:

Henry Sweet (1845–1912) began at an early age to teach himself Old English and Old Icelandic. Before going up to Oxford, he spent a year at the University of Heidelberg, studying comparative and Germanic philology, and during his undergraduate career he published an edition of King Alfred's Pastoral Care. His enthusiasm for philology led him to pursue a career in research and teaching, though he did not hold a university post until in 1901 he was appointed to a new readership in phonetics at Oxford. His work on the sounds of English was first published in 1874, and in this revised version in 1888. The work derived from a monograph 'on the history of long e and o', but Sweet's own further research, as well as that of others, led him to a much broader treatment, including an investigation of dialects and medieval and modern English sounds.

Preface; 1. Phonetics; 2. Sound-change; 3. Origin of speech-sounds; 4. Origin of dialects; 5. Sound representation; 6. Arian sounds; 7. Germanic sounds; 8. Runes; 9. Old-English sounds; 10. Scandinavian sounds; 11. Middle English sounds; 12. Modern English sounds; 13. Living English sounds; First word-list; Second word-list; Index to first word-list; Tables; Contractions. 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     English, Middle (enm)
                     English, Old (ang)
                     Norse, Old (non)

Language Family(ies): East Scandinavian
                      Germanic 
                      West Scandinavian 

Written In: English  (eng)

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