English pronunciation in the eighteenth century : Thomas Spence's "Grand repository of the english language"
Paying particular attention to the actual pronunciations advocated by Thomas Spence and his contemporaries, this text aims to reconstruct what was felt to be "correct" pronunciation in 18th-century Britain.
IX, 239 Seiten Frontispiz 24 cm
9780198237815, 9780199256679, 0198237812, 0199256675
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1. Thomas Spence: His Life and Works ; 2. Eighteenth-Century English: The 'Cinderella' of English Historical Linguistics ; 3. Evidence for Eighteenth-Century Pronunciation: The Value of Pronouncing Dictionaries ; 4. Spence's Grand Repository of the English Language ; 5. The Phonology of Eighteenth-Century English: Evidence from Spence's Grand Repository and Contemporary Pronouncing Dictionaries ; 6. Conclusion ; Appendices
Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon, 1999