Simon Roper | Q&A Part 1 of 2 @simonroper9218 | Uploaded November 2019 | Updated October 2024, 20 hours ago.
The search for widely-accessible sources has been a bit tricky. I get most of my information either from books I own or from articles that I access through my university library, which obviously has subscriptions of its own. A lot of information that's easily publically available is poorly-sourced, and a lot of academic material is hard to get to without paying for it. However, here are a few interesting articles and books
doi.org/10.1080/03740463.1969.10415424 - A paper by Herbert Pilch describing how precisely the pronunciation of ancient languages can actually be reconstructed. May not be easily accessible.
oldenglish.umwblogs.org/pronunciation-guide This, although it is a web page, is pretty good in terms of basic pronunciation, as it actually has IPA characters. It gives the 'ie' digraph as representing [ɪ] - although there is debate about whether this sound was diphthongal, I have more often seen it given as [iy], and that is what I tend to go with.
'Complete Old English' by Mark Atherton is good at explaining grammar to beginners (it's what I used), but it does not incorporate IPA characters when teaching pronunciation, so it's not very useful on that front.
The following paper is a nice discussion of the palatalisation I described (which does not affect northern dialects of Old English), and seems to be freely accessible. Sorry that the link is a bit long;
s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/30190443/Laker2007ABaG64.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DPalatalization_of_velars_A_major_link_of.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A%2F20191125%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20191125T143632Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=9117dc882857d37401a08a4ccfb8208c3747359edefc9b965575ad603504bdcf
The search for widely-accessible sources has been a bit tricky. I get most of my information either from books I own or from articles that I access through my university library, which obviously has subscriptions of its own. A lot of information that's easily publically available is poorly-sourced, and a lot of academic material is hard to get to without paying for it. However, here are a few interesting articles and books
doi.org/10.1080/03740463.1969.10415424 - A paper by Herbert Pilch describing how precisely the pronunciation of ancient languages can actually be reconstructed. May not be easily accessible.
oldenglish.umwblogs.org/pronunciation-guide This, although it is a web page, is pretty good in terms of basic pronunciation, as it actually has IPA characters. It gives the 'ie' digraph as representing [ɪ] - although there is debate about whether this sound was diphthongal, I have more often seen it given as [iy], and that is what I tend to go with.
'Complete Old English' by Mark Atherton is good at explaining grammar to beginners (it's what I used), but it does not incorporate IPA characters when teaching pronunciation, so it's not very useful on that front.
The following paper is a nice discussion of the palatalisation I described (which does not affect northern dialects of Old English), and seems to be freely accessible. Sorry that the link is a bit long;
s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/30190443/Laker2007ABaG64.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DPalatalization_of_velars_A_major_link_of.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A%2F20191125%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20191125T143632Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=9117dc882857d37401a08a4ccfb8208c3747359edefc9b965575ad603504bdcf
