Lecture 5. New English Period in the History of the English Language. Phonetic Features of Old English
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Subject: English language history
Academic year: 2013-2014
Lecture 5
Theme: New English Period in the History of the English Language. Phonetic Features of Old English
Teacher: Zhakipbekova D.K
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Lecture 5. New English Period in the History of the English Language. Phonetic Features of Old English
In the 15th – 16th c. the feudal system started to decay and bourgeois relationships and capitalism started to develop. England became a centralised state.
1475– the first English book was printed in Bruges by William Caxton. It was a translation of the story of Troy.
A few years later William Caxton brought his printing press to England and set… Contribution of Printing:
William Shakespeare - To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1)
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The normalisation of the English language started in the 17th – 18th c. In… Grammar’s of English:
Phonetic Features of Old English
fixed (can’t move either in form- or word-building and is usually placed on root or prefix);
dynamic (force, breath stress);
in Noun and Adjective stress was mainly on the prefix if there was one:
OE Vowels
Unstressed vowels were weakened and dropped.
Stressed vowels underwent some changes:
splitting – 1 phoneme split into several allophones which later become separate phonemes
e.g. à a
a à ã
à æ
others (usually short diphthongs) – as a result of the influence of the…
Palatal Mutation/i-Umlaut
Mutation – a change of one vowel to another one under the influence of a vowel in the following syllable.
William Shakespeare - To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1)
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer