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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      31 March 2022
      07 April 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009099912
      9781009098144
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009099912
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.551kg, 278 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, History of the English Language
      Series:
      Studies in English Language
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    Subjects:
    Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, History of the English Language
    Series:
    Studies in English Language
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    The standardisation of English spelling that resulted from the advent of printing is one of the most fascinating aspects of the history of English. This pioneering book explores new avenues of investigation into spelling development by looking at the Early Modern English period, when irregular features across graphemes became standardised. It traces the development of the English spelling system through a number of 'competing' standards, raising questions about the meaning of 'standardisation'. It introduces a new model for the analysis of large-scale graphemic developments from a diachronic perspective, and provides a new empirical method geared specifically to the study of spelling standardisation between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The method is applied to four interconnected case studies, focusing on the standardisation of positional spellings, i and y, etymological spelling and vowel diacritic spelling. This book is essential reading for researchers of writing systems and the history of English.

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