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A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period: With Full Word-Lists

A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period: With Full Word-Lists

Sweet, Henry

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics

Foreign Language GeneralFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1108075606
ISBN13: 9781108075602
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Aug 28 2014
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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