Neuphilologisches Institut
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

LECTURE:
ENGLISH SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATION:
ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT

Oliver M. Traxel

SS 15
Tu 10-12

Room: HS 4


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Here is a selective bibliography containing some publications dealing with English spelling and pronunciation. The list is divided into historical and modern parts.

Contents:

1. SPELLING: HISTORICAL

Barber, Charles, Early Modern English, 2nd ed. (Edinburgh, 1997), pp. 81-8.

Brengelman, F.H., 'Orthoepists, Printers, and the Rationalization of English Spelling', Journal of English and Germanic Philology 79:3 (1980), 332-54.

Görlach, Manfred, Einführung ins Frühneuenglische, 2nd ed. (Heidelberg, 1994), pp. 34-49.

Horobin, Simon, Does Spelling Matter? (Oxford, 2013).

Howard-Hill, T. H., 'Early Modern Printers and the Standardisation of English Spelling', Modern Language Review 101 (2006), 16-29.

Miles, Elaine, English Words and Their Spelling: A History of Phonological Conflicts (London, 2005).

Osselton, Noel E., 'Informal Spelling Systems in Early Modern English: 1500-1800', in: English Historical Linguistics: Studies in Development, ed. Norman F. Blake and Charles Jones (Sheffield, 1984), pp. 123-37.

Roberts, Jane, Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 (London, 2005).

Scragg, Donald G., A History of English Spelling (Manchester, 1974).

Upward, Christopher, and George Davidson, The History of English Spelling (Chichester, 2011).

van Gelderen, Elly, A History of the English Language, 2nd ed. (Amsterdam, 2014), pp. 17-26, 51-8, 115-25, 159-69, 210-13.


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2. SPELLING: MODERN

Carney, Edward, A Survey of English Spelling (London, 1994).

Carney, Edward, English Spelling (London, 1997).

Cook, Vivian, The English Writing System (Oxford and New York, 2004).

Coulmas, Florian, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems (Oxford, 1996).

Crystal, David, Language and the Internet, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 2006).

Mountford, John, An Insight Into English Spelling (London, 1998).

Robinson, Andrew, Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2009).

Rogers, Henry, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach, Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics 18 (Oxford, 2005).

Sampson, Geoffrey, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction (London, 1985).

Venezky, Richard, The Structure of English Orthography (The Hague, 1970).

Venezky, Richard, The American Way of Spelling: The Structure and Origins of American English Orthography (New York, 1999).


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3. PRONUNCIATION: HISTORICAL

Barber, Charles, Early Modern English, 2nd ed. (Edinburgh, 1997), pp. 103-141.

Cercignani, Fausto, Shakespeare's Works and Elizabethan Pronunciation (Oxford, 1981).

Dobson, Eric J., English Pronunciation 1500-1700, 2nd ed., 2 vols. (Oxford, 1968).

Görlach, Manfred, Einführung ins Frühneuenglische, 2nd ed. (Heidelberg, 1994), pp. 50-63.

Minkova, Donka, A Historical Phonology of English (Edinburgh, 2014).

Mitchell, Bruce, and Fred C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, 8th ed. (Oxford, 2012), pp. 13-16.

Sauer, Walter, Die Aussprache des Chaucer-Englischen: Ein Übungsbuch auf der Grundlage des Prologs der Canterbury Tales (Heidelberg, 1998).

van Gelderen, Elly, A History of the English Language, 2nd ed. (Amsterdam, 2014), pp. 17-26, 51-8, 115-25, 159-69, 210-13.


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4. PRONUNCIATION: MODERN

Cruttenden, Alan, Gimson's Pronunciation of English, 8th ed. (London, 2014).

Eckert, Hartwig, and William Barry, The Phonetics and Phonology of English Pronunciation: A Coursebook with CD-ROM, 2nd. ed. (Trier, 2005).

Gut, Ulrike, Introduction to English Phonetics and Phonology, Textbooks in English Language and Linguistics 1 (Frankfurt, 2009).

Hayes, Bruce, Introductory Phonology, Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics 23 (Oxford, 2009).

Jones, Daniel, English Pronouncing Dictionary, 16th ed., ed. Peter Roach, James Hartman and Jane Setter (Cambridge, 2003).

Roach, Peter, English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course, 4th ed. (Cambridge, 2009).

Sauer, Walter, A Drillbook of English Phonetics, 3rd ed. (Heidelberg, 2006).

Sauer, Walter, American English Pronunciation: A Drillbook, 3rd ed. (Heidelberg, 2006).

Scherer, Günther, and Alfred Wollmann, Englische Phonetik und Phonologie, 3rd ed. (Berlin, 1986).


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