What support is there for the idea that Old English continued to be spoken long after the Norman Conquest?

2 стр. (Автор и выходные данные не указаны). Для студентов институтов иностранных языков. Дисциплина - История языка. Contents: What support is there for the idea that Old English continued to be spoken long after the Norman Conquest? What are some of the theories for why the Great Vowel Shift occurred? Analyze the following changes the language has undergone and create the information cards: Comment on changes of vowels under influence of Great Vowel Shift and its results in phonetics and spelling system in Modern English How could the vowels in OE talu, findan ultimately develop into diphthongs, though originally they were short monophthongs (NE tale, find). Account for the vowel interchanges in NE child-children, wild-wilderness, bewilder; behind-hindrance.