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OLD ENGLISH pronunciation

GORDILLO, Eugenia Guadalupe. OLD ENGLISH pronunciation. PRONUNCIATION OF OLD ENGLISH. OE script used seven vowels -symbols: a , e, i, o, u, y, æ( ash ) All of these symbols could represent both long and short vowels.

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OLD ENGLISH pronunciation

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  1. GORDILLO, Eugenia Guadalupe OLD ENGLISH pronunciation

  2. PRONUNCIATION OF OLD ENGLISH • OE script usedsevenvowels-symbols: a , e, i, o, u, y, æ(ash) • All of these symbols couldrepresentbothlong and short vowels

  3. To represent dipthongs , the Anglo-Saxons used digraphs (sequences of symbols) ea, eo, io and ie. OE used consonantal symbols b, c, d, f, g, h, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, p, ₫

  4. The use of double consonants was different from the one we are used to. In Modern English we use double-consonant symbols to show that the preceding vowel is short. For instance, “written” /ritn/ cooper /kɒpə/ which have short vowels. On the other hand, a singl consonant symbol is used if the preceding vowel is long or is a diphthong, as in writer and coping. • But in OE, a single consonant symbol tells us nothing about the length of the preceding vowel.

  5. OE had no symbol for / v/; the symbol / f/ was used to represent both /v/ and /f/.They are members of the same phoneme. /v/: used when this phoneme occured within a word, that is to say, not initially and finally, before a voice sound and was not double. For example: giefan “to give” seofon “seven” /f/: used in all the others positions. For example fæder “father” fif “five”

  6. The same happened with /s/ and /z/, they were members of the same phoneme too and their rules for their distribution were exactly the same as for /v/ and /f/. Examples: /s/ sæ “sea” hūz “house” /z/ nosu “nose” bōsm “bosom”

  7. Another pair of symbols that behaved in this way were the voiceless /θ/ and the voiced /ð/ .To represent this phoneme, OE used them indiscriminately without distinguishing voiceless and voiced sounds. the letter /k/ and /tʃ/ were represented by /c/ Examples: cyssan “to kiss” cinn “chin”

  8. /g/ also represented two sounds: /j/ gēar “ year” /g/ gōd “good” When   this phoneme occured undoubled between vowels a different allophone was used: [ɣ] fugol “bird” lagu “law”

  9. The pronunciation of /ʃ/ had been reached by the end of OE period. Examples: scip “ship” fisc “fish” /ŋ/ was simply an allophone of the /n/ phoneme, occurred before /k/ and /g/ and it did not become an independant phoneme until about the year 1600. Example: þancian /θaŋkian/ “to thank”

  10. /h/ had three allophones [h] hæt /hætt/ “hat” [ç] niht /night/ “night” [x] dohtor /d⊃xt⊃r/ “daughter”

  11. We can say that all the words were probably pronounced as they are by us, but it was the spelling what made them different.

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