• transcription delimiters. The close and mid-height front vowels of English (vowels of i and e type) have undergone a variety of changes over time and often...
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  • transcription delimiters. In the history of English phonology, there have been many diachronic sound changes affecting vowels, especially involving phonemic...
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  • of modern English have two close back vowels: the near-close near-back rounded vowel /ʊ/ found in words like foot, and the close back rounded vowel /uː/...
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  • history of English high back vowels Phonological history of English high front vowels English-language vowel changes before historic /r/ English-language...
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    The close-mid front rounded vowel, or high-mid front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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    The close front rounded vowel, or high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic...
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    The near-close front rounded vowel, or near-high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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    The near-close near-front unrounded vowel, or near-high near-front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol...
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  • merger. In the Old English vowel system, the vowels in the open back area were unrounded: /ɑ/, /ɑː/. There were also rounded back vowels of mid-height: /o/...
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    The close-mid front unrounded vowel, or high-mid front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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    The close front unrounded vowel, or high front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound that occurs in most spoken languages, represented in the International...
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  • International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the exact mid front unrounded vowel between close-mid [e] and open-mid [ɛ], but it is normally written ⟨e⟩...
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  • article describes those aspects of the phonological history of the English language which concern consonants. Reduction of /hw/ – to /h/ in a few words (such...
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    Alphabet: Before the Great Vowel Shift, Middle English in Southern England had seven long vowels, /iː eː ɛː aː ɔː oː uː/. The vowels occurred in, for example...
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  • One of these, Swedish, even contrasts the two types of rounding in front vowels (see near-close near-front rounded vowel, with Swedish examples of both...
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    (2009), p. 174. "Phonological inventory of Paraguayan Guarani". South American Phonological Inventory Database. Berkeley: University of California. 2015...
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  • /ˈsa(ɪ)əns/ with one syllable. Phonological history of English Phonological history of English vowels Trisyllabic laxing Great Vowel Shift Foyer may also be...
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  • Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers Phonological development Phonological history of English vowels Phonological history of English consonants...
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  • than this for the former three vowels. The vowels of Australian English can be divided according to length. The long vowels, which include monophthongs and...
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  • The phonological system of the Old English language underwent many changes during the period of its existence. These included a number of vowel shifts...
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  • the short vowels were in fact lowered to become open-mid vowels, as is shown by their values in Modern English. The front rounded vowels /y yː ø øː œː/...
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  • the phonological system of New Zealand English. While New Zealanders speak differently depending on their level of cultivation (i.e. the closeness to Received...
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    The near-open front unrounded vowel, or near-low front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...
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    languages. It is one of the eight primary cardinal vowels, not directly intended to correspond to a vowel sound of a specific language but rather to serve as...
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    dialects of Swedish, but see also close front compressed vowel. The close back vowels of Norwegian and Swedish are also compressed. See close back compressed...
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    phonetically near-open central [ɐ̹ː]. It is a phonological open-mid front rounded vowel, the long counterpart of /œ/. Riad (2014) reports that [ɶː] in Stockholm...
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  • steal"), and a distinction between short vowels and long vowels in stressed syllables. It had a larger number of vowel qualities in stressed syllables – /i...
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  • transcription delimiters. The phonological history of the English language includes various changes in the phonology of consonant clusters. The H-cluster...
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    The close-mid central unrounded vowel, or high-mid central unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...
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    The close back unrounded vowel, or high back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic...
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