(March 7, 2013 at 7:48 am)ManMachine Wrote:(March 7, 2013 at 6:26 am)Justtristo Wrote: We have writings from the period which shows us how words were being pronounced Also there are verses in Shakespeare's works which don't rhyme in modern pronunciation, however they do in the pronunciation which has been figured out.
I understand what is being said about the research into pronunciation of individual words but most of the linguistic tools we use today to analyse this information were developed post-Elizabethan times.
Individual words aside, putting words together in longer phrases has an effect on how they are sounded, are we really so sure of the the overall phonetic structure and sentence phrasing that gives us accent or are we stringing individual sounded words together, because the latter is not accent. I remain unconvinced.
I can't answer those questions until I read the research for myself.
If it's anything like historical musicology research, there are probably things we can know pretty much for certain about speech back then and then there are things we can only make our best educated guesses on.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
