tailieunhanh - Gimson's pronunciation of english part 7

Gimson's pronunciation of english part 7. Bài tập luyện ngữ pháp tiếng anh cho mọi người, đây là tài liệu hay và hữu ích có thể giúp các bạn có thể nắm vững được các ngữ pháp tiếng anh cụ thể. | 62 Tbr Stuntit tfEngfitb Sound Change The language spoken in England has undergone great changes during the la thousand years changes which have affected every aspect of the language t morphology syntax and vocabulary as well as Its pronunciation. Old English 1 j so different from present-day English from every point of view that it is unintetf ligible to the modern Englishman either in its written form or in a reconstructed spoken form Chaucer s poetry presents difficulties in print and when read n what Is presumed to be the pronunciation of the fourteenth century offers a sound pattern which it is not easy for the modern listener to understand even Shakespeare though phonetically not far removed from ourselves raises probJ lems of syntax and meaning. The pronunciation of a language is subject to continuous change. It would indeed be surprising if speech handed on orally from one generation to another showed no variation over the centuries. It is not difficult to find examples of changes which are taking place in our own times . the final vowel in words like city is closer and tenser and the vowel in sad more open in the south of England today than they were 70 years ago. A change of a different kind the use of different phoneme in a class of words is illustrated by the case of words such as poor and sure these tend to be said by the older generation with oa whereas the younger generation much more commonly uses x . At any given time seq eral pronunciations may be current representing older and newer forms. There are a number of reasons why we might expect changes to operate less rapidly at the present time. Universal education greater ease of travel increased numbers of newspapers journals and books ubiquitous radio and TV are all influences which might apply a brake to changes in pronunciation. But all these factors have operated only in comparatively recent times. In earlier stages in the development of English there was no mass nation-wide influence .

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