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On early English pronunciation, with special 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 a rearrangement of Prof. F.J. Child's memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower, and reprints of the rare tracts by Salesbury on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barclay on French, 1521.

Title:On early English pronunciation, with special 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 a rearrangement of Prof. F.J. Child's memoirs on the language of Chaucer and Gower, and reprints of the rare tracts by Salesbury on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barclay on French, 1521.
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Note:Pub. for the Philological Society by Asher & Co., and for the Early English Text Society and the Chaucer Society, by Trübner & Co., 1869
  
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Subject:Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Subject:English language -- Dialects -- Phonology
Subject:English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700
Subject:English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500
Subject:English language -- Phonology
Subject:English language -- Pronunciation
Subject:Phonetic alphabet
Subject:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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