{"title":"Jonathan B. Himes. The Old English Epic of Waldere","authors":"Leonard Neidorf","doi":"10.1515/ang-2012-0029","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"with silent . It is unlikely that the written form of these words had anything to do with this, as most speakers of English would have been illiterate. But the fact that there was a significant number of Romance words with non-silent may well have contributed to the interpretation of as unambiguously consonantal (if pronounced at all). To sum up, the present volume is highly recommended to anyone researching phenomena of weakening in English or investigating this topic from a phonetic or theoretical perspective. The papers address a range of phenomena and combine fine-grained analyses with detailed and large collections of data, providing reliable information on specific issues and starting points for further investigation.","PeriodicalId":43572,"journal":{"name":"ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE","volume":"33 1","pages":"158 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2012-0029","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
with silent . It is unlikely that the written form of these words had anything to do with this, as most speakers of English would have been illiterate. But the fact that there was a significant number of Romance words with non-silent may well have contributed to the interpretation of as unambiguously consonantal (if pronounced at all). To sum up, the present volume is highly recommended to anyone researching phenomena of weakening in English or investigating this topic from a phonetic or theoretical perspective. The papers address a range of phenomena and combine fine-grained analyses with detailed and large collections of data, providing reliable information on specific issues and starting points for further investigation.
期刊介绍:
The journal of English philology, Anglia, was founded in 1878 by Moritz Trautmann and Richard P. Wülker, and is thus the oldest journal of English studies. Anglia covers a large part of the expanding field of English philology. It publishes essays on the English language and linguistic history, on English literature of the Middle Ages and the Modern period, on American literature, the newer literature in the English language, and on general and comparative literary studies, also including cultural and literary theory aspects. Further, Anglia contains reviews from the areas mentioned..