The development of OE y in late mediaeval Norfolk texts
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研究論文(Thesisses)The present article discusses the historical development and distribution of English pronunciation which derives from Old English in medieval Norfolk dialect. OE has three different outputs in the Middle English period: ME /(i :)/ in Northern and East Midland dialects, ME /e(:)/ in Southern and Kentish dialects, and ME /y(:)/ in West Midland dialect. However, a survey of the extant materials illustrates the mixture of ME /i(:)/ and /e(:)/ for the reflex of OE in late medieval Norfolk where ME /(i :)/ is regularly expected, as Norfolk belongs to the East Midlands. The evidence of rhymes and spellings are analysed for the attestation of pronunciation. The localisation of the manuscripts is based on A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English (Aberdeen, 1986) from which the nine materials are chosen for the present study. Rhymes are analysed by their linguistic environments: OE + <-nd>, OE + <-ll>, and OE + <-r>, etc. As the result shows, two different pronunciations are used in the same works in order to make rhymes exact: e.g. for the word KIND, there are /ki:nd/ on the one hand and /ke:nd/ on the other for the sake of rhyme scheme. Although the mixture can be regarded as only poetic licence, it is more probable that the mixture is the result of language contact. Norfolk was the second largest county in England and an economically significant place where people traveled in and out for trading throughout the Middle English period. The importance of non-linguistic factors for the language change is also indicated here.
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