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OE writing. its phonetic system. Main phonetic changes in OE.

OE writing. its phonetic system. Main phonetic changes in OE. Who were the first Indo-European inhabitants of the British Isles? When did the Romans come to the British Isles and for how long did they stay there? What territory of the British Isles was not conquered by the Romans?

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OE writing. its phonetic system. Main phonetic changes in OE.

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  1. OE writing. its phonetic system. Main phonetic changes in OE.

  2. Who were the first Indo-European inhabitants of the British Isles? • When did the Romans come to the British Isles and for how long did they stay there? • What territory of the British Isles was not conquered by the Romans? • What does the Hadrian’s Wall mark? • Why did the Romanized Celts ask the West Germanic tribes for help, after the Romans left the British Isles? • When did Germanic tribes start settling in the British Isles? Which Germanic tribes?

  3. List the kingdoms that were established by the Germanic tribes in the British Isles. • What are the two historical events that influenced the development of Old English? • Which dialect is usually taken as a standard of OE? • What are the two kinds of letters (alphabets) used by the OE scribes? • Which Modern English letter combination is represented by the OE letter ‘þ’? • What three variants of pronunciation did the OE letter ‘ӡ’ have?

  4. the reign of Alfred (871 —900) • West Saxon

  5. Old English Writings • æ – ash (æsc), which represents the vowel in Modern English 'hat' ; • þ – thorn, which represents Modern English 'th' ; • ð – eth (or ðæt), which also represents Modern English 'th'. Capital ð is written Ð;

  6. Old English Writings • œ – the combination of o and e; • Ʒ=g (yogh), that could be pronounced in 3 different ways • ƿ = w (wynn) • E.g.: ƿest, NORĐAN HYMBRA,

  7. a phonetic principle • a macron – a line over the top.

  8. The Old English Sound System Short vowels: i, e, u, o, a, æ, y; Long vowels: ī, ē, ū, ō, ā, æ:,ŷ Short diphthongs: ea, eo, ie, io, Long diphthongs:

  9. The consonants in the Old English language • Labials: p, b, f, v • Dentals: d, t, s, þ (English [th] in  thin), ð English [th] in this) • Velars: c [k], h, g/Ʒ, • Liquids: r, l • Nasals: n, m

  10. the letter g/Ʒ. • 1. As English [g] gōd . • 2. As Greek 'gamma' [ɣ] dagas, folgian. • 3. As English [j] in yellow: Ʒiefan (to give), dæƷ .

  11. 1) before or after a front vowel it gave sound [j], [], [г’] – dæƷ 2) after r, l, or between back vowels – [] – folƷian, maƷan, daƷum 3) At the beginning of the word before back vowels and consonants, and after n – [g] – sinƷan, Ʒōd, Ʒrēn.

  12. Phonetic changes in OE vowelsChanges of stressed vowels in early OE. • Mutation/umlaut • Gothic sandjan – OE sendan • Gothic hailjan – OE hæ:lan • Gothic *mūsiz– OE mӯs

  13. i-umlaut (palatal mutation) • fronting and raising of vowels through the influence of [i] or [j] in the immediately following syllable • the sounds [i] or [j] were common in suffixes and endings, so palatal mutation was widespread. • all vowels, except ē, ī, æ:, were affected by i-mutation. • due to this law there appeared a new vowel [y] and a new diphthong [ie] in OE.

  14. 2. OE Breaking (fracture) • Goth. Kalds – OE ceald • Goth. ahtau – OE eahta • Goth. melkan – OE meolcan • Goth. leihts – OE lēoht

  15. OE Breaking (fracture)

  16. 3. Palatalization

  17. 4. Back Mutation • e > eo • hevfon > heofon

  18. Consonant changes • Voicing Fricative sounds f, s, þ (ð)were voiced when between vowels and voiced consonants: • risan, hlafas, paþas, wyrþe

  19. Inotherpositions, includingthebeginningandendofwords, theyremained voiceless: sittan, hlaf, pæþ, oft Theprefixӡe- doesnotcausevoicing: findananditspastparticipleӡe-funden bothhavesound[f].

  20. 2. Palatalisationand splitting Velar consonants were palatalized before/after a front vowel (e, i) and remained velar before back vowels (a, o, u,) • Cild [k’] >[t] scip [sk’] ecg [g’] • Can, gan, dagas

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