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Old English: Phonology Flashcards

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Reconstructing Pronunciation

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  • Reconstruction as aim of the comparative method
  • Making educated guesses about forms where there is no evidence
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Comparative reconstruction

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  • Establishing features of an ancestor of one or more related languages
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Internal reconstruction

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  • irregularities in a single language are used to make inferences about earlier stages about this language
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Old English Consonant system

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Articulatory feature similar to Modern English
- Place of articulation
- Manner of Articulation
- Voicing
- Length
Problematic grapheme-phoneme relations
- Voicing
- Palatalization

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