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Palatals and umlaut in old English1

Palatals and umlaut in old English1 Abstract 1.1. The standard handbooks (e.g. Wright (1925), Brunner (1965), Campbell (1959) as well as the standard grammars for beginners (e.g. Sweet (1882), Moore and Knott (1955)) agree that there were in Old English two segment types represented in the orthography by c : a velar, as in catte ‘cat’, cynn ‘kin’, cēne ‘keen’, and a palatal, as in ċinn ‘chin’, ċiele ‘chill’, ċēn ‘torch’. (The palatals are traditionally represented with a superscript dot, and I will continue the practise here for clarity.) The sources further suggest that we can identify c before vowels as representing one or the other type as follows: (a) c represents a palatal before all ‘original’ front vowels, i.e. vowels which were front in Pro to-Germanic, or etymological back vowels that were subject to unconditioned fronting in pre-OE (specifically the so-called ‘Anglo-Frisian Fronting’ or Aufhellung, in which original > , and au > ēa: see Luick (1964: §§ 115–119)). http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Taylor & Francis

Palatals and umlaut in old English1

Lass, Roger
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International , Volume 13 (1): 24 – Jan 1, 1971
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Palatals and umlaut in old English1

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Abstract 1.1. The standard handbooks (e.g. Wright (1925), Brunner (1965), Campbell (1959) as well as the standard grammars for beginners (e.g. Sweet (1882), Moore and Knott (1955)) agree that there were in Old English two segment types represented in the orthography by c : a velar, as in catte ‘cat’, cynn ‘kin’, cēne ‘keen’, and a palatal, as in ċinn ‘chin’, ċiele ‘chill’, ċēn ‘torch’. (The...
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10.1080/03740463.1971.10415413
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Abstract 1.1. The standard handbooks (e.g. Wright (1925), Brunner (1965), Campbell (1959) as well as the standard grammars for beginners (e.g. Sweet (1882), Moore and Knott (1955)) agree that there were in Old English two segment types represented in the orthography by c : a velar, as in catte ‘cat’, cynn ‘kin’, cēne ‘keen’, and a palatal, as in ċinn ‘chin’, ċiele ‘chill’, ċēn ‘torch’. (The palatals are traditionally represented with a superscript dot, and I will continue the practise here for clarity.) The sources further suggest that we can identify c before vowels as representing one or the other type as follows: (a) c represents a palatal before all ‘original’ front vowels, i.e. vowels which were front in Pro to-Germanic, or etymological back vowels that were subject to unconditioned fronting in pre-OE (specifically the so-called ‘Anglo-Frisian Fronting’ or Aufhellung, in which original > , and au > ēa: see Luick (1964: §§ 115–119)).

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Published: Jan 1, 1971

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