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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. Close-mid front rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    Spectrogram of [ø]. The close-mid front rounded vowel, or high-mid front rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is ø , a lowercase letter o with a diagonal stroke through it, borrowed from Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese, which sometimes use the letter to represent the sound.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 .

  6. Great Vowel Shift - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of the changes in English vowels during the Great Vowel Shift. The Great Vowel Shift was a series of pronunciation changes in the vowels of the English language that took place primarily between the 1400s and 1600s [1] (the transition period from Middle English to Early Modern English), beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English.

  7. Mid front rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    See New Zealand English phonology: South African [10] Used in General and Broad accents; may be close-mid instead. In the Cultivated variety, it is realized as mid central unrounded . [10] See South African English phonology: Southern Welsh [11] Also described as open-mid [12] and close-mid . [13] [14] West Midlands [15] Faroese [16] høgt

  8. 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.

  9. Mid front unrounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    The mid front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound that is used in some spoken languages.There is no dedicated symbol in the 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 .