Маъсул муҳаррир: Филология фанлари доктори, профессор: Г. Х. Боқиева Тақризчилар

SEMINAR 8


Middle English Phonetics

Questions

1. Word stress in middle English.
2. The system of vowels: changes of unstressed vowels.
3. Quantitative changes of stressed vowels.
4. Qualitative changes of stressed vowels. Monophthongization of old English diphthongs and the development of new diphthongs.
5. The system of consonants (growth of sibilants and affricates, development of fricatives, loss of consonants).
6. Changes in the alphabet and spelling. Rules of reading.


Reference Material

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2. 
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3. 
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Practice Assignment
1. Explain the phonetic changes in the following OE words which took place in ME:

OE rād - ME rod ‘road’ OE hyll - ME hill ‘hill’ OE heofon - ME hevn ‘heaven’ OE sēcan - ME seken ‘to seek’ OE dæƷ - ME day ‘day’ OE cild - ME child ‘child’ OE hlysten - ME listen ‘to listen’ OE clǽne - ME clene ‘clean’

OE Ʒōs - ME goos ‘goose’ OE hlāf- ME lof ‘loaf, bread’ OE lufian - ME loven ‘to love’ OE nama - ME name ‘name’ OE pleƷian - ME pleyen ‘to play’ OE есƷе - ME edge ‘edge’ OE fisc - ME fish ‘fish’ OE fŷr - ME fir ‘fire’.

2. State which words are OE and which are ME. Give your reasons:

sōna - sone nefa - neve
mous - mūs child — cild
Ʒŷt - yet mydnyght - mid-niht

3. Read the following ME words:

open, weke, child, wisdom, doore, yvel, blak, that, taughte, knowen, may, bowe, night, herd, queen, hous, my, snow, now, thief, edge, what, love, foul.