Processes Part 1
Processes Historical processes which have left their mark on the languages Complete Incomplete
Processes Historical processes which have left their mark on the languages Complete –Consonant Singling: ladder latter written running follow –Initial kn and gn: know, knee, gnat
Processes Historical processes which have left their mark on the languages Complete Incomplete –FOOT-STRUT Split : butch, put, much, stuff, love, country cushion, discussion – BATH-TRAP Split: bath, math pass, mass “Incomplete” but FINISHED!
Wells Chapter 3 Middle English Wells 3.2 British prestige innovations Wells 3.3 Some American innvoations Wells 3.4 Later British innvoations "The Great Divide" Wells 3.1 Residualisms
Wells 1.3. Residualisms residue: remains, leavings, leyfar, eftirstöðvar processes which are completed in most dialects, but have not have occurred in all
Wells: Residualisms Great Vowel Shift NG Coalescence Velar Fricative Long Mid Mergers Fleece Merger
3.1.1.Great Vowel Shift
tide sweet clean name house moon stone
tíd swét clæn nama hús móna stán ´
tide sweet clean name house moon stone
tide sweet clean name house moon stone
Effects of GVS 1.Spelling: relation of “long” and “short” vowels bit – bite, rat – rate, pen – green, rod – rode, cut - cute 2.Some words waver: privacy, patriot, lever 3.Morphology: divine, divinity, serene, serenity profane, profanity, nation national Trisyllabic Shortening: stressed long vowel→ short /_CVCV 4.Various other relationships such as bite-bitten, divide-division, keep-kept 5.Dialectally: difference between GVS North and South
Great Vowel Shift: South
Great Vowel Shift: North
also called “G Deletion” Not in Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool Hypercorrections: loss in finger, longer Generalised NG coalescence in parts of Scotland and Ulster Variably generalised in certain words elsewhere: English, language etc Orangutan?
right eight brought daughter through < riht eahta broht dohtor þurh borough Edinburh, cough rough laugh Sometimes causes lengthening Some retension in Traditional-dialect; but the local accent with the standard form usually exists.
tide sweet clean name
tide sweet clean name
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