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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. 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.

  4. 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'

  5. Phonological history of English close front vowels - Wikipedia

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    Old English had the short vowel /y/ and the long vowel /yː/, which were spelled orthographically with y . They contrasted with the short vowel /i/ and the long vowel /iː/, which were spelled orthographically with i . By Middle English, the two vowels /y/ and /yː/ merged with /i/ and /iː/ and left only the short-long pair /i/-/iː/.

  6. Close-mid front unrounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    The close-mid front unrounded vowel, or high-mid front unrounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is e .

  7. Near-open front unrounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    See Standard German phonology: Northern accents [23] alles [ˈa̝ləs] 'everything' Lower and often also more back in other accents. [23] See Standard German phonology: Western Swiss accents [24] spät [ʃpæːt] 'late' Open-mid or close-mid in other accents; contrasts with the open-mid /ɛː/. [25] See Standard German phonology: Greek ...

  8. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...

  9. Close front unrounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    A spectrogram of /i/. Sagittal section of a vocal tract pronouncing the IPA sound i . Note that a wavy glottis in this diagram indicates a voiced sound.. The close front unrounded vowel, or high front unrounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound that occurs in most spoken languages, represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet by the symbol i.