Pronouncing Early Modern English and Scots: Reassessing the evidence for 'non-standard' speech in Early Modern Britain

发音早期现代英语和苏格兰语：重新评估早期现代英国“非标准”言语的证据

• 批准号: 2738693
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2738693
• 关键词: Pronouncing; Early; Modern; English; Scots

Regional variation in the speech of England and Scotland is well-understood for the medieval period and post-1700. Early modern regional speech, however, has suffered from a London-centric focus and a 'march towards standardisation' in scholarship. This study challenge the 'grand narrative' and investigate material from early linguists - orthoepists - concerning speech in Northern England, Wales, and Scotland. This decentred approach will align the study of early modern pronunciation with current trends in historical linguistics. Importantly, it will contextualise orthoepic practice and allow for better understanding of regional pronunciation between the medieval times and the emergence of prescriptive speech standards.

中世纪时期和 1700 年后英格兰和苏格兰语言的地区差异是众所周知的。然而，早期现代地区性语言受到了以伦敦为中心的关注和学术上“走向标准化”的影响。这项研究挑战了“宏大叙事”，并调查了早期语言学家（矫形学家）关于英格兰北部、威尔士和苏格兰言语的材料。这种分散的方法将使早期现代发音的研究与历史语言学的当前趋势保持一致。重要的是，它将把矫形实践置于语境中，并允许更好地理解中世纪时期和规范性语音标准的出现之间的区域发音。