RE: Shakespeare in original pronunciation
March 7, 2013 at 4:44 pm
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2013 at 4:54 pm by Justtristo.)
(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.
Well it is more appropriate to think of these attempts as for instance what the original pronunciation of Shakespeare's plays as reconstructions.
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