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The i-umlaut of the Old English West Saxon diphthongs (again)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

John C. Mclaughlin
John C. Mclaughlin
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Department of English, University of Iowa
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The attention by ‘modern’ linguists to the problems of Old English diphthongal spellings and their phonetic realizations may perhaps be dated (without doing anyone an injury) from the study by Robert P. Stockwell and C. Barritt (1951). Since that time much ink has been spilled (or typewriter ribbons worn out) in attempts to specify in some precise and principled way the phonological structure of the entities spelled in Old English ea, eo, io, Ia and ie. I will spare the reader a review of these articles and commentaries since such a review would prove both tiresome and uninformative.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , September 1979 , pp. 289 - 294
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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Lass, R. & Anderson, J. M. (1975). Old English phonology (Cambridge studies in linguistics 14). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Stockwell, R. P. & Barritt, C. (1951). Some Old English graphemic-phonemic correspondences: ae, ea.e SIL, Occasional papers, 4.Google Scholar