/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language...

English language is the Great Vowel Shift, which began in the 15th century. The Greek language also underwent a vowel shift near the beginning of the...

shift, interpreted as rules of phonology, are in what is termed counterfeeding order.[clarification needed] A well-known example is the Great Vowel Shift...

section, the Early Modern/New English (ENE) vowel /eː/ developed from Middle English /ɛː/ via the Great Vowel Shift, and ENE /iː/ was usually the result of...

/ɔː/ (an opener back vowel) in open syllables, a development that can be seen in words like nose. During the Great Vowel Shift, Middle English long /oː/...

OE niht ('night') → ME /niht/ [niçt] → /niːt/ → NE /naɪt/ (by the Great Vowel Shift) OE hlæhhan ('to laugh') → ME [ˈlauxə] → LLME /laf/ → ENE /laːf/ →...

the Great Vowel Shift, as well as more recent developments in some dialects such as the cot–caught merger. In the Old English vowel system, the vowels in...

That was the case with the Great Vowel Shift in English in which all cases of /iː/ and /uː/ changed to diphthongs. Vowel breaking sometimes occurs only...

is the form of the English language that has been spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed...

affecting vowels, especially involving phonemic splits and mergers. The Great Vowel Shift was a series of chain shifts that affected historical long vowels but...

vowel was altered in the Great Vowel Shift, but later a new long A (or "broad A") developed which was not subject to the shift. These processes have produced...

Modern English began in the late 15th century with the start of the Great Vowel Shift and the Renaissance trend of borrowing further Latin and Greek words...

or ⟨ei⟩, as in the words scene, bean, meet, niece, conceive; (see Great Vowel Shift). Irish orthography reflects both etymology and whether preceding...

changes, including the Great Vowel Shift, the presence of a suffix on the end of a word influenced the development of the preceding vowel, and in a smaller...

phonology Great Vowel Shift Inherent vowel List of phonetics topics Mater lectionis Scale of vowels Table of vowels Vowel coalescence Words without vowels Zero...

pronunciation changes in this period included the Great Vowel Shift, which affected the qualities of most long vowels. Modern English proper, similar in most respects...

particularly involving long vowels and diphthongs, which in the later Middle English period began to undergo the Great Vowel Shift. Little survives of early...

In historical linguistics, the Canaanite shift is a vowel shift/sound change that took place in the Canaanite dialects, which belong to the Northwest Semitic...

talc, Val, doll, Moll, and Poll (a nickname for a parrot.) The Great Vowel Shift altered the pronunciation of the diphthongs, with /ɑu/ becoming the monophthong...

degree of sound change. For example, chain shifts such as the Great Vowel Shift (in which nearly all of the vowels of the English language changed) or the...

transcription delimiters. In English, many vowel shifts affect only vowels followed by /r/ in rhotic dialects, or vowels that were historically followed by /r/...

spirant law Canaanite shift Cot-caught merger Dahl's law Grassmann's law Great Vowel Shift (English) Grimm's law High German consonant shift Kluge's law Onbin...

names got derived) preserve the qualities of the English vowels before the Great Vowel Shift. By contrast, the names of F, L, M, N, and S (/ɛf, ɛl, ɛm...

changes that have occurred since the late 15th century (such as the Great Vowel Shift). Despite the various English dialects spoken from country to country...

elsewhere in the Midwest. The Northern Cities Vowel Shift or simply Northern Cities Shift is a chain shift of vowels and the defining accent feature of the Inland...

General or Western American accent. A distinctive chain shift of vowel sounds, the California Vowel Shift, was first noted by linguists in the 1980s in southern...

(all of the early languages except for Gothic) Great Vowel Shift (English) High German consonant shift Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (attested in Old English...

modern readers, they are now eye rhymes because of shifts in pronunciation, especially the Great Vowel Shift. These are called historic rhymes. Historic rhymes...

were sometimes pronounced with a more open vowel sound, like the verbs are and scar. See Great Vowel Shift § Later mergers for more information. Nature...

consonants and then another vowel letter—this results from Middle English lengthening followed by the Great Vowel Shift a schwa /ə/ in many unstressed...