The standardisation process of English spelling largely came to its conclusion during the Early Modern period. While the progress of standardisation has been studied in both printed and manuscript texts, few studies have looked at these processes side by side, especially focusing on the same genre of writing and by using corpora that are sufficiently large for quantitative comparison. Using two Early Modern medical corpora, one based on manuscripts and the other on printed sources, this paper compares the trajectories of spelling standardisation in the two textual domains and shows that while spelling standardisation progressed in an almost linear fashion in printed texts, the manuscripts reveal a much more varied and shallow cline toward standardisation.

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手稿和印刷品中的早期现代医学

英语拼写的标准化过程在很大程度上是在近代早期结束的。虽然已经在印刷文本和手稿文本中研究了标准化的进展，但很少有研究同时研究这些过程，特别是关注相同的写作类型并使用足够大的语料库进行定量比较。使用两个早期现代医学语料库，一个基于手稿，另一个基于印刷资源，本文比较了两个文本领域中拼写标准化的轨迹，并表明虽然拼写标准化在印刷文本中以几乎线性的方式发展，但手稿揭示更加多样化和浅薄的标准化倾向。