Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. PREFACE VII
3. CONTENTS IX
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 1
6. METHODOLOGY 2
7. QUESTIONS RELATING TO SOUND CHANGE 3
8. SCOPE OF THE STUDY 7
9. ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY 7
10. CHAPTER I
11. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ME ī,ū 9
12. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ME ē 14
13. THE TRADITIONAL LONG VOWELS 15
14. CHAPTER II
15. OUTLINE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL THEORY 17
16. GRADUAL VS. DISCRETE SOUND CHANGE 21
17. CONSTRAINTS ON SOUND CHANGE 27
18. CHAPTER III
19. JOHN HART: 1551, 1569, 1570 33
20. JACQUES BELLOT: 1580 37
21. WILLIAM BULLOKAR: 1580 40
22. RICHARD MULCASTER: 1582 44
23. ROBERT ROBINSON: 1617 47
24. ALEXANDER GIL: 1619 51
25. CHARLES BUTLER: 1633 59
26. SIMON DAINES: 1640 61
27. RICHARD HODGES: 1643, 1644 64
28. JOHN WALL IS: 1653 67
29. JOHN WILKINS: 1668 76
30. WILLIAM HOLDER: 1669 81
31. ELISHA COLES: 1674 84
32. FRANCIS LODWICK : 1686 87
33. HEINRICH KELLERMAN: 1686 90
34. CHRISTOPHER COOPER: 1687 91
35. THE WRITING SCHOLAR'S COMPANION: 1695 101
36. THOMAS TUITE: 1726 103
37. JAMES DOUGLAS: cl740 104
38. NOAH WEBSTER: 1789 105
39. CONCLUSIONS 106
40. CHAPTER IV
41. THE EVIDENCE FROM RHYME 110
42. THE EVIDENCE OF OCCASIONAL SPELLINGS 115
43. THE EVIDENCE FROM WRITERS OF SHORTHAND SYSTEMS 119
44. CONCLUSIONS 126
45. CHAPTER V
46. /ī/, /ū/ → /ey/, /ow/: EVIDENCE FROM OTHER LANGUAGES 131
47. /ī/ → /ey/: EVIDENCE FROM ENGLISH DIALECTS 134
48. /ī/ → /ey/: EVIDENCE FROM SOUND CHANGES CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS 136
49. EVIDENCE FROM OTHER LANGUAGES FOR THE ADDITION OF EXCHANGE RULES TO A GRAMMAR 137
50. EVIDENCE FROM ENGLISH DIALECTS FOR THE ADDITION OF EXCHANGE RULES TO A GRAMMAR 138
51. EVIDENCE FROM NORTHERN DIALECTS AGAINST THE VOWEL SHIFT RESULTING FROM THE ADDITION OF AN EXCHANGE RULE 140
52. EVIDENCE FROM OTHER LANGUAGES AGAINST THE VOWEL SHIFT RESULTING FROM THE ADDITION OF AN EXCHANGE RULE 141
53. LOSS OF INTELLIGIBILITY WITH VOWEL EXCHANGE: EVIDENCE FROM OTHER LANGUAGES 147
54. EVIDENCE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF EARLY ENGLISH LONG VOWELS AS DIPHTHONGS 148
55. CHAPTER VI
56. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ME ī, ū 151
57. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ME ē 156
58. CONDITIONED DEVELOPMENTS OF ME a, o 159
59. THE MIDDLE ENGLISH DIPHTHONGS AND LONG TENSE VOWELS 160
60. THREE- VERSUS FOUR-VOWEL-HEIGHT SYSTEMS 166
61. LEXICAL DIFFUSION OF SOUND CHANGE 168
62. EXTENSION OF SOUND CHANGE BY RULE SIMPLIFICATION 169
63. SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS 172
64. NOTES 174
65. BIBLIOGRAPHY 181
66. INDEX 191