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Chapter 3 - The development of OE ǣ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2016

Gjertrud Flermoen Stenbrenden
Gjertrud Flermoen Stenbrenden
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
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Summary

Chapter 3 assesses spelling evidence for the raising of OE ǣ, which was a very long process that did not reach completion (at [i:]) until the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. Since use of the ‘ash’ <æ> was discontinued after 1066, the phonetic correspondences of its orthographic representations are notoriously hard to determine. However, words in which the vowel shortened may be useful, in that a shortened [ɛ:] is spelt , and shortened [æ:] is spelt , , etc. The raising of ǣ may have started in the eleventh century, and may have provided a prelude to the GVS, or may have been one of the first stages of the shift itself.
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Long-Vowel Shifts in English, c.1050–1700
Evidence from Spelling
 , pp. 78 - 102
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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