• development of the Middle English diphthongs, see Middle English phonology (diphthong equivalents). Early Middle English had two separate diphthongs /ɛj/ and...
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  • identical) phonological system. Among other things, most dialects have vowel reduction in unstressed syllables and a complex set of phonological features...
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  • set of phonological features that distinguish fortis and lenis consonants (stops, affricates, and fricatives). Phonological analysis of English often...
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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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  • dialects, however, where the split is phonological. The bad–lad split is a phonological split of the Early Modern English short vowel phoneme /æ/ into a short...
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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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  • Phonological history of English Phonological history of English vowels Phonological history of English consonants Phonological history of English consonant...
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  • delimiters. 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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  • Scholars disagree on whether short diphthongs are phonologically possible, and some say that Old English short diphthongs must actually have been centralized...
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  • transition to Middle English. Middle English diphthongs came about by various processes and at various time periods. Diphthongs tended to change their...
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  • The phonology of the open back vowels of the English language has undergone changes both overall and with regional variations, through Old and Middle English...
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  • documents the phonological history of French from a relatively technical standpoint. See also History of French#Internal phonological history for a less...
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  • homophonous as /mɛt/. Phonological history of the English language Phonological history of English vowels Barber, C. L. (1997). Early Modern English. Edinburgh University...
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  • article covers the phonological system of New Zealand English. While New Zealanders speak differently depending on their level of cultivation (i.e. the...
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  • opening diphthongs /ie̯/ and /uo̯/ are true falling diphthongs, since they begin louder and with higher pitch and fall in prominence during the diphthong. A...
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  • vowels. The vowels of Australian English can be divided according to length. The long vowels, which include monophthongs and diphthongs, mostly correspond...
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  • Influence of French on English Phonological history of the English language Comparison of American and British English English phonology English studies...
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    lax vowels as in Standard English. The diphthongs /ei/ and /ou/ are monophthongs [eː] and [oː] or even the reverse diphthongs [ie] and [uo] (e.g. bay and...
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  • the Americas Phonological history of English Regional accents of English Transatlantic accent en-US is the language code for U.S. English, as defined by...
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  • merger in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Phonological history of English consonants Phonological history of English consonant clusters Based on www.ling.upenn...
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  • German long vowels changed to diphthongs. Most Upper German dialects retain the diphthongs. A remnant of their former diphthong character is shown when [iː]...
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  • North American English regional phonology is the study of variations in the pronunciation of spoken North American English (English of the United States...
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  • centering diphthongs for FACE, which categorically undoes the merger for those speakers. Even when FACE is realized as an opening-centering diphthong, it may...
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  • original diphthongs they are called "genuine diphthongs", in all other cases, they are called "spurious diphthongs". In Attic, some cases of long vowels...
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  • slightly diphthongized, and are often narrowly transcribed in phonetic literature as diphthongs [ɪi] and [ʊu]. Vowels may be phonologically long or short...
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  • diphthongs whose nuclei switch positions. /ɪ/ may be pushed into a diphthong with a raised beginning, [iə], while /i/ may be pulled into a diphthong with...
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  • western parts of the United States "with a high degree of r constriction". Phonological history of English Phonological history of English vowels Coil–curl...
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    maggot [ˈmaɡɪθ̠]. In final position, /iː, ʉː/ tend to be fronting/backing diphthongs with central onsets [ɨ̞i, ɨ̞u]. Sometimes this also happens before /l/...
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  • pronounced both as rising diphthongs or hiatus. In these and other cases, other diphthongs, diphthong-hiatus or hiatus-diphthong combinations might exist...
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  • p. 79 Phonological Features of African American Vernacular English Weber, Tobias (February 2014). Principles in the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic...
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