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Explorations in the English language: Middle Ages and beyond. Festschrift for Professor Jerzy Wełna, 2012

Abstract

This paper is aiming to complement and extend the work of Jerzy Wełna in historical graphophonology by turning northwards, to the Scottish Lowlands. It takes another look at the <ai/ay> digraphs, traditionally considered to represent long vowels in northern Middle English dialects (Wełna 1987: 188, Dobson 1968: 557), and consequently also in Middle Scots (Kniezsa 1997). This graphemic feature is reconsidered in the context of other available spelling variants and with regard to the historical shape of the underlying vowel.

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