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On early English pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere 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 Barcley on French, 1521.

Title:On early English pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere 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 Barcley on French, 1521.
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Note:London etc., 1869
  
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Subject:Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Subject:Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Language
Subject:English language -- Dialects -- Phonology
Subject:English language -- Early English (1500-1700)
Subject:English language -- Middle English (1100-1500)
Subject:English language -- Phonology
Subject:English language -- Pronunciation
Subject:Lang -- Eng -- Grammar -- Orthography and spelling -- Phonetics
Subject:Phonetic alphabet
Subject:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Language
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