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  2. Middle English phonology - Wikipedia

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    Middle English phonology is necessarily somewhat speculative since it is preserved only as a written language. Nevertheless, there is a very large text corpus of Middle English. The dialects of Middle English vary greatly over both time and place, and in contrast with Old English and Modern English, spelling was usually phonetic rather than ...

  3. Phonological history of English diphthongs - Wikipedia

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    Although the Old English diphthongs merged into monophthongs, Middle English began to develop a new set of diphthongs.Many of these came about through vocalization of the palatal approximant /j/ (usually from an earlier /ʝ/) or the labio-velar approximant /w/ (sometimes from an earlier voiced velar fricative [ɣ]), when they followed a vowel.

  4. Phonological history of English - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This article describes the development of the phonology of English over time, ... the long mid-central vowel ...

  5. Ulster English - Wikipedia

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    Ulster English, [1] also called Northern Hiberno-English or Northern Irish English, is the variety of English spoken mostly around the Irish province of Ulster and throughout Northern Ireland. The dialect has been influenced by the local Ulster dialect of the Scots language , brought over by Scottish settlers during the Plantation of Ulster and ...

  6. Vowel diagram - Wikipedia

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    In the vowel diagram, convenient reference points are provided for specifying tongue position. The position of the highest point of the arch of the tongue is considered to be the point of articulation of the vowel. The vertical dimension of the vowel diagram is known as vowel height, which includes high, central (mid), or low vowels.

  7. The Atlas of North American English - Wikipedia

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    The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change (abbreviated ANAE; formerly, the Phonological Atlas of North America) is a 2006 book that presents an overview of the pronunciation patterns in all the major dialect regions of the English language as spoken in urban areas of the United States and Canada.

  8. Phonological history of English vowels - Wikipedia

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    The bad–lad split is a phonological split of the Early Modern English short vowel phoneme /æ/ into a short /æ/ and a long /æː/. This split is found in some varieties of English in England and Australia. In Modern English, a new phoneme, /ɑː/, developed that did not exist in Middle English.

  9. Near-close near-front unrounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    See Australian English phonology: Some South African speakers [44] Used by some General and Broad speakers. In the Broad variety, it is usually lower , whereas in the General variety, it can be close-mid instead. [44] Typically transcribed in IPA with e . See South African English phonology: French: Quebec [45] petite [pət͡sɪt] 'small'