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Pronunciation of English th - Distribution in Old English | | Pronunciation of English th - Distribution in Old English: Encyclopedia II - Pronunciation of English th - Distribution in Old English | | In Germanic, /ð/ and /θ/ were separate phonemes; in Old English the original /ð/ became /d/, but a new [ð] appeared as an allophone of /θ/. In Old English, the phoneme /θ/, like all fricative phonemes in the language, had two allophones, one voiced and one voiceless, which were distributed regularly according to phonetic environment.
[ð] (like [v] and [z]) was used between two voiced sounds (either vowels or voiced consonants).
[θ] (like [f] and [s]) was spoken in initial and final po ...
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Pronunciation of English th - Distribution in Old English
In Germanic, /ð/ and /θ/ were separate phonemes; in Old English the original /ð/ became /d/, but a new [ð] appeared as an allophone of /θ/. In Old English, the phoneme /θ/, like all fricative phonemes in the language, had two allophones, one voiced and one voiceless, which were distributed regularly according to phonetic environment.
- [ð] (like [v] and [z]) was used between two voiced sounds (either vowels or voiced consonants).
- [θ] (like [f] and [s]) was spoken in initial and final position, and also medially if adjacent to another unvoiced consonant.
Although Old English had two graphemes to represent these sounds, <þ> (thorn) and <ð> (eth), it used them interchangeably, unlike Old Icelandic, which used <þ> for /θ/ and <ð> for /ð/.
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