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• Title:
  The Round Allograph of in Late Middle English
• Creator:
  Thaisen, Jacob
• Description:
  This paper discusses glyphs of the 2-shaped or “round” allograph of the grapheme <r> with a tag protruding from the lower part of the stem, asking whether their distribution in a corpus of some 600 late Middle English texts can be meaningfully related to these texts’ localisation in A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. It discusses what localisation expresses, and uses regression modelling to show that there is no co-variation between the texts’ paleography and their orthography, although there is a measure of correlation between them. The evidence in favour is that the quantitative analysis identifies localisation in northings as a predictor of the occurrence of the tagged form of the allograph, which occurs at a higher frequency in texts localised below the Midlands line at c. 300 northings. The evidence against is the form’s scattered distribution according to the localisation variable where co-variation would imply a more clear-cut concentration of points, and also the moderate success at explaining the form’s distribution by means of variables known to explain orthographic variation.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Jacob Thaisen
• Date:
  2018.03.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed articles
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Vol. 53 No. 1 (2018); 129-144;
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Tom 53 Nr 1 (2018); 129-144;
  2082-5102;
  0081-6272
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2018-0006/28934
• Subject:
  Middle English;
  orthography;
  paleography;
  regression modeling
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2018-0006
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  other