Rhyme Evidence of the Great Vowel Shift in The Ashmole Sir Ferumbras (C.1380)
Rhyme Evidence of the Great Vowel Shift in The Ashmole Sir Ferumbras (C.1380)
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《阿什莫尔费伦布拉斯爵士》中元音大转变的押韵证据 (C.1380)
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10.1075/nowele.30.01ike
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1997
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M. Ikegami
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0.最近似乎没有关于元音大移位的最早变化的时间的严肃讨论，即ME长前元音/i：/到双元音和/e：/到/i：/的变化以及ME长后元音/u：/到双元音和/o：/到/u：/的变化。最近关于中古英语或早期现代英语的书，如果提到这一点的话，通常会相当模糊地说，这些ME长元音在世纪开始朝着相应的新声音发展。1早些时候，HC Wyld认为，新的发音/i：/为ME/e：/和/u：/为ME/o：/可能是在14世纪后期发展起来的。一个类似的说法是由AA普林斯，谁说，改变我到/i：/和/o：/到/u：/可能已经开始在14 t h世纪。他们的假设是基于英语作家偶尔拼写ofor< y>为ME/e：/和< ou>ME/o：/发现在各种文本的14日世纪，以及在那些15日和16世纪。ME/e：/的拼法甚至在一本世纪的文本中找到。2然而，这种拼写证据的有效性受到质疑，因为这些拼写可能显示缩短：或< y>对于ME/e：/表示/i/，而不是/i：/，以及< ou>对于ME/o：/表示/u/，而不是/u：/。[3]此外，有人认为< ou>ME/o：/的ME拼写更可能是一种区分ME close/o：/和ope的手段。作为迄今为止所产生的拼写证据的替代品，[5]本文认为，元音大转移的第一个运动，即ME/i：/到双元音的变化和ME/e：/到/i：/的变化，确实始于世纪晚期。这个韵脚是我：companee“company”，出现在中古英语的格律浪漫小说《费鲁姆爵士》中。
0. Recentl y it seems that there has been no serious discussion regarding the timing of the earliest changes of the Great Vowel Shift, namely the change of the ME long front vowels/i:/to a diphthong and/e:/to/i:/and that of the ME long back vowels/u:/to a diphthong and/o:/to/u:/. Recent books dealing with Middle English or Early Modern English usually state rather vaguely, if they refer to the matter at all, that these ME long vowels began to move towards their corresponding new sounds in the 15th century. 1 Earlier, HC Wyld maintained that the new pronunciations/i:/for ME/e:/and/u:/for ME/o:/were probabl y fully develope din th e lat e 14t h century. A simila r kind of statement is made by AA Prins, who says that the changes of ME to/i:/and/o:/to/u:/may possibly have started in the 14t h century. Their assumptions are based on English writers' occasional spelling ofor< y> for ME/e:/and< ou> for ME/o:/found in various texts of the 14th century as well as in those of the 15th and 16th centuries. The spellingfor ME/e:/is even found in a 13th century text. 2 However, the validity of such spelling evidence has been questioned, since these spellings may show the shortening:or< y> for ME/e:/indicating/i/, rather than/i:/and< ou> for ME/o:/indicating/u/, rather than/u:/. 3 Moreover it is suggested that ME spelling< ou> for ME/o:/is more likely to have been a device to distinguish ME close/o:/from opeAs a replacement for the kind of spelling evidence hitherto produced, 5 the presen t pape r suggest s tha t ther eis rhym e evidenc e showin g that the first movements of the Great Vowel Shift, the change of ME/i:/to a diphthong and that of ME/e:/to/i:/, had indeed started in the late 14th century. The rhyme in question is me: companee'company'which appears in the Middle English metrical romance Sir Ferum-