Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему Middle English dialects

by the feudal system and by foreign influences – Scandinavian and French. The ME dialects developed from respective OE dialects.

English. Note that by Middle English times English had spread to (Lowland) Scotland and indeed led to a certain literary tradition developing there at the end of the Middle English period which has been continued up to the present time (with certain breaks, admittedly).

seen in word pairs like rigg/ridge; kirk/church.

dialect and has more or less the same geographical distribution.

existence of /e:/ for Middle English /i:/ and (2) so-called "initial softening" which caused fricatives in word-initial position to be pronounced voiced as in vat, vane and vixen (female fox).

the Middle English period and is fairly well-documented in literary works. It is the western half of the Old English dialect area Mercia.

/ø:/ which in the East had been unrounded to /i:/ and /e:/ respectively.

developed. To be precise the standard arose out of the London dialect of the late Middle English period. Note that the London dialect naturally developed into what is called Cockney today while the standard became less and less characteristic of a certain area and finally (after the 19th century) became the sociolect which is termed Received Pronunciation.