The rise and fall and rise of the digraph 〈oa〉 in English

Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden
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The present paper examines the history of the digraph 〈oa〉 in English: it is relatively rare in OE and early ME, falls out of use in late ME, and reappears in the late fifteenth century. Different lexemes have been spelt with 〈oa〉 in the different language periods, but in the majority of cases, the vowel so represented is the reflex of early ME /ɔ:/ or OE o in an open syllable; hence, the digraph is clearly phonetically conditioned. The paper also investigates the graphotactic constraints on the orthographic variants 〈oa〉, 〈oCe〉, 〈oe〉.
位格〈oa〉在英语中的兴衰与发展
本文研究了英语中位词〈oa〉的历史:它在外来语和早期英语中相对罕见,在晚期英语中不再使用,在 15 世纪晚期重新出现。在不同的语言时期,有不同的词目用 〈oa〉拼写,但在大多数情况下,这样表示的元音是早期 ME /ɔ:/或开放音节中的 OE o 的反射音;因此,该数字符显然是受语音条件限制的。本文还研究了正字法变体〈oa〉、〈oCe〉、〈oe〉的图式制约因素。
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