Robert Robinson, The Art of Pronunciation (1617)
Date
1617
Author
Book title
The Art of Pronuntiation, Digested into two parts. Vox audienda, & Vox videnda. In the first of which are set foorth the Elements and seuerall parts of the voice: In the second are described diuers Characters, by which euery part of the voice may be aptly known and seuerally distinguished. Very necessary as well thereby to know the naturall structure of the voice, as speedily to learne the Exact touch of pronuntiation of any forraine language whatsoeuer
Publication place
London
Publisher
Nicholas Okes
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
grammar
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: What a word is.
A word is either one sillable alone, or els two or mo sillables hauing a very small intermission of time and stay of the breath between euery of them, by which any one thing conceiued in the minde, or perceiued through the sences is distinctly named and knowne from others. (b1r-1v)
sample: What a word is.
A word is either one sillable alone, or els two or mo sillables hauing a very small intermission of time and stay of the breath between euery of them, by which any one thing conceiued in the minde, or perceiued through the sences is distinctly named and knowne from others. (b1r-1v)
Alston
VI.463
STC
21122
Other editions
Bodleian Library MSS Ashmole 826, fols. 110-11, 113-14, and Ashmole 1153, fols. 117-38
Facsimiles
Robinson, Robert. The Art of Pronunciation, 1617. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 150. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969.
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Modern editions
Robinson, Robert. The Phonetic writings of Robert Robinson. Ed. E. J. Dobson. Early English Text Society Original Series 238. n.p.: n.p., 1957.
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Criticisms
Dobson, E. J. "Robert Robinson and his Phonetic Transcripts of Early Seventeenth-century Pronunciation." Transactions of the Philological Society 58 (1947): 25-63.
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Fiedler, H. G. A Contemporary of Shakespeare on Phonetics and on the Pronunciation of English and Latin. M.H.R.A.. n.p.: n.p., 1936 November. view record
Fiedler, H. G. A Contemporary of Shakespeare on Phonetics and on the Pronunciation of English and Latin. M.H.R.A.. n.p.: n.p., 1936 November. view record
