The Round Allograph of &lt;r&gt; in Late Middle English
Jacob Thaisen
Abstract This paper discusses glyphs of the 2-shaped or “round” allograph grapheme &lt;r&gt; with a tag protruding from lower part stem, asking whether their distribution in corpus some 600 late Middle English texts can be meaningfully related to these texts’ localisation A Linguistic Atlas Late Mediaeval . It what expresses, and uses regression modelling show that there is no co-variation between paleography orthography, although measure correlation them. The evidence favour quantitative analysis identifies northings as predictor occurrence tagged form allograph, which occurs at higher frequency localised below Midlands line c. 300 northings. against form’s scattered according variable where would imply more clear-cut concentration points, also moderate success explaining by means variables known explain orthographic variation.
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