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| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Sound and Spelling | |
| Purpose of this Volume | |
| Sources | |
| Criticism | |
| Ellis and his followers | |
| Plan | |
| Sound-laws and Analogy | |
| The Basis. Consonants | p. 19 |
| b, p | |
| d, t | |
| g, k | |
| m, n, [eta] | |
| w, hw, v, f | |
| [sigma], [th] | |
| z, s, [Characters not reproducible], [Characters not reproducible] | |
| l, r | |
| j, c, x, h | |
| The Basis. Vowels and Diphthongs | p. 62 |
| i | |
| e | |
| a | |
| u | |
| o | |
| Diphthongs. [Characters not reproducible]i, [Characters not reproducible]u, [Characters not reproducible]u | |
| oi | |
| iu, eu, eau | |
| au | |
| The Basis. Quantity | p. 111 |
| Principles | |
| Lengthenings | |
| Shortenings | |
| Influences of Stress | |
| Romance Words | |
| Consonant quantity | |
| Spelling | |
| Stress | p. 150 |
| Principles | |
| Value | |
| Unity | |
| Rhythm | |
| Romance Disyllabics | |
| Romance Trisyllabics, etc | |
| Distinctive Stress | |
| Recent Loans | |
| Word-families | |
| The Earliest Changes | p. 186 |
| Loss of weak e | |
| er > ar | |
| Voicing of Consonants in English | |
| Early Changes in Consonant-Groups | p. 208 |
| ln | |
| d, t and d, p | |
| Loss of w | |
| Loss of final n | |
| Loss of final Stops after Nasals | |
| d, t added | |
| Simplification of Groups | |
| Haplology | |
| Foreign Words | |
| The Great Vowel-Shift | p. 231 |
| Where begun? | |
| Diphthongizing of [Characters not reproducible] | |
| Raising of [Characters not reproducible] | |
| [Characters not reproducible], 8.5 [Characters not reproducible] | |
| Short vowels | |
| Unstressed Vowels | p. 248 |
| Principles | |
| Front Vowels | |
| Back Vowels | |
| Diphthongs | |
| Unobscured Vowels | |
| Loss of Vowels; Syllabic n | |
| Syllabic l | |
| Syllabic r | |
| Adjoining Vowels | |
| Syncope and Aphesis | |
| Loss of Consonants and Rise of ([Characters not reproducible]) | p. 284 |
| c | |
| X | |
| u before l | |
| l lost and added | |
| The new [Characters not reproducible] | |
| Explanation | |
| The new [Characters not reproducible] | |
| Explanation | |
| wa > W[Characters not reproducible] | |
| Seventeenth-Century Vowel-Changes | p. 318 |
| Vowels before r | |
| Prothetic w and j | |
| [Characters not reproducible] | |
| Slow Diphthongs | |
| ai for oi | |
| u > a | |
| The lesser raising | |
| Seventeenth-Century Consonant-Changes | p. 340 |
| t > r | |
| Assibilation, sj > [Characters not reproducible] | |
| zj > [Characters not reproducible] | |
| tj > t[Characters not reproducible] | |
| dj < d[Characters not reproducible] | |
| tj, gj, pw, bw | |
| kn, gn, kl, gl | |
| wr > r | |
| Eighteenth-Century Changes | p. 355 |
| [eta] and n | |
| r and vowels before r | |
| wh > w | |
| Loss of h | |
| ju > u | |
| v and w | |
| [epsilon], [th] > v, f | |
| Present English Sounds. Consonants | p. 387 |
| Principles | |
| b, p | |
| d, t | |
| g, k | |
| m, n, q | |
| w, hw, v, f | |
| [epsilon], [th] | |
| z, s, [Characters not reproducible] | |
| l, r | |
| j, h, glottal stop | |
| Present English Sounds. Vowels | p. 414 |
| i | |
| e, [epsilon] | |
| ae | |
| [Characters not reproducible] | |
| [Delta], a | |
| u | |
| o | |
| [Characters not reproducible] | |
| ai, au, oi | |
| Conclusion | p. 440 |
| Sound System | |
| Distinctive Sounds | |
| Quantity | |
| Syllable Construction | |
| Stress, Tone | |
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