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English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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  1. Charles Jones

    1. Midlothian, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. 1700–1750

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Background

      • Charles Jones
      Pages 3-18

    3. Sound/Symbol Representations: The Case For and Against Manipulation of the Orthography

      • Charles Jones
      Pages 19-45

    4. The Sound System: Description and Classification

      • Charles Jones
      Pages 46-57

    5. The Vowel Phonology

      • Charles Jones
      Pages 58-101

    6. Non-Vowel Phonology

      • Charles Jones
      Pages 102-114

  3. 1750–1800

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Background

      • Charles Jones
      Pages 117-136

    3. Sound/Symbol Representations

      • Charles Jones
      Pages 137-165

    4. The Sound System: Description and Classification

      • Charles Jones
      Pages 166-168

    5. The Vowel Phonology

      • Charles Jones
      Pages 169-246

    6. Non-Vowel Phonology

      • Charles Jones
      Pages 247-270

  4. The Nineteenth Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
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    2. Background

      • Charles Jones
      Pages 273-293

    3. The Vowel Phonology

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      Pages 294-331

    4. Non-Vowel Phonology

      • Charles Jones
      Pages 332-348

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 349-402
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About this book

This work provides a detailed account of word level pronunciation in England and Scotland between 1700 and 1900. All major and minor source materials are presented in depth and there is a close discussion of contemporary attitudes to pronunciation standards and orthographic reform. The materials are presented in three chronological periods: 1700-1750, 1750-1800 and the Nineteenth century, so that the reader is able not only to see the main characteristics of the pronunciation of both vowels and consonants in each period, but can also compare developments from one period to another, thus identifying ongoing changes to the phonology.

Reviews

'This volume relies on a wealth of primary sources, which the author investigates with great accuracy, thus giving a very detailed picture of how Late Modern English commentators approached phonological variation at the segmental level. The comments provided by the authors discussed shed considerable light on how speakers saw their usage and strove to change or maintain it. As a result, this valuable study sets itself at the crossroads between historical phonology, historical dialectology, and historical perceptual dialectology.' Professor Marina Dossena, Universita' degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy

'...it is an essential work of reference for any scholar with an interest in the history of English linguistics in this period.' - Joan C. Beal, Historiographia Linguistica

Authors and Affiliations

  • Midlothian, UK

    Charles Jones

About the author

CHARLES JONES is Emeritus Forbes Professor of English Language at the University of Edinburgh, UK where he served as Professor and Head of Department from 1990 to 2004. He has also held the Chair of English Language at the University of Durham (1978-1990) as well as several Visiting Professorships in the USA. He was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 2001-2003. His main published works are Grammatical Gender in English 950-1250 (1989); A History of English Phonology (1989); A Language Suppressed: The Pronunciation of Scots in the Eighteenth Century (1975); and The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language (1997), which was awarded the National Library of Scotland Research Book of the Year Prize in 1998. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2000 and the Royal Society of Arts in 2003

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

  • Authors: Charles Jones

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503403

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4723-9Published: 16 December 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52424-2Published: 01 January 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50340-3Published: 16 December 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 402

  • Topics: Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Phonology and Phonetics

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