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Jane
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From: Matthew Moreland <[log in to unmask]>
To: Jane Setter <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 25 Sep 2008 13:04:11 +0100
Subject: Yod History
Hi Jane,
Just wondering - and there's no rush for a response to this - do you know
of any good resources on the histories of sounds? Over the break I've
written a few thousand words on the presence/absence of the yod in various
Englishes around the world, and a 1000-word section on how the yod came
into English.
The query I'm having is that there appear to be two roots - one for
word-initial yod (12th-15th century development of <eende> to <yende> and
<erthe> to <yerthe>) and one for post-initial yod (the 16th&17th century
coalescence of various Middle English diphthongs into, eventually, /ju/).
These seem to me that they may be related, but I can't find a resource that
refers to that possibility (the resources I've consulted either only focus
on the vowel coalescence or put the two developments in separate chapters
without an explicit link).
Matt
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Matthew Moreland
PhD Student
Department of Applied Linguistics
University of Reading
Whiteknights, Reading, UK, RG6 6AA
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