| Description |
7 audio discs (approximately 7 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (112 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.). |
| Series |
Modern Scholar. |
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Modern scholar.
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| System Details |
Compact disc. |
| Performer |
Professor Michael D. C. Drout, lecturer. |
| Summary |
Addresses the foundation of language and its connection to portions of the brain. The components of language are explained in easy-to-understand terms and the progression of the language from Germanic to Old, Middle, and Modern English is fully illustrated, including such revolutionary language upheavals as those brought about by the Norman Conquest and the Great Vowel Shift. |
| Contents |
Lecture 1. The foundations of language: brain, development, acquisition -- Lecture 2. Signs and meanings: semantics -- Lecture 3. Sounds of language: phonetics -- Lecture 4. Sound and meaning: phonology -- Lecture 5. Sound shifts and history -- Lecture 6. The rules: syntax -- Lecture 7. Words, words, words -- Lecture 8. The history of the English language -- Lecture 9. From Germanic to Old English -- Lecture 10. Borrowing and influence: Romans, Celts, Danes (Latin, Celtic, Scandinavian) -- Lecture 11. The Norman Conquest, the influence of French, and the development of Middle English -- Lecture 12. To Modern English: the great vowel shift -- Lecture 13: You say soda, I say pop: dialect, variants, and the development of American English -- Lecture 14. A global language: the present and future of English. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
English language -- History -- Sound recordings.
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Historical linguistics -- England -- Sound recordings.
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Linguistic change -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Recorded Books, Inc. Publisher.
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| ISBN |
1428117296 set |
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9781428117297 set |
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142811730X course guide |
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9781428117303 course guide |
| Music No. |
UC088 Recorded Books |
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