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Donka Minkova, Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English.

Publication: Medium Aevum
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04
Format: Online - approximately 648 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Donka Minkova, Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Donka Minkova, Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English, Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 101 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). xix + 400 pp. ISBN 0-521-57317-3. 55.00 [pounds sterling].

Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English is a welcome reconsideration of important issues of Old and Middle English phonology, and an undeniable advance in the reconstruction of medieval English poetic practice. The first two chapters explain the author's views on the social setting and linguistic structure of alliterative verse. In chapter iii the history of velar and palatal consonants is examined using evidence from alliteration, spelling, and...

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