Materials

• History Synopsis
• History / Details
• Chaucer's Life
• Me. dialects
• Sound shift
• ME - ModE 
• Estuary English
• General Prologue - Kommentar
• Modern German Translation by Jürgen Strauss

Links

• Internet Resource: Vowel Chart (IPA) (http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/vowels.html)

• Internet Resource: The Great Vowel Shift (http://www.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/)

• Internet Resource:
  Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue
  • Middle English Text:
    from the University of Toronto English Library
    from the University of Virginia
    from the University of Michigan
  • Middle English Text and Modern English Translation parallel:
    from Librarius
    from Towson University