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    Free Changes Short Vowels: ME (A) ME (A)

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    This document summarizes the phonological changes that English vowels underwent from Old English to present-day English. It describes how short vowels like /ɑ/ fronted over time, and long vowels like /ɑ:/ underwent the Great Vowel Shift. It also explains that diphthongs like /eo/ monophthongized into modern vowel sounds differently depending on regional dialects in England. The phonological evolution of vowels provides insight into the development of the English language.

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    This document summarizes the phonological changes that English vowels underwent from Old English to present-day English. It describes how short vowels like /ɑ/ fronted over time, and long vowels like /ɑ:/ underwent the Great Vowel Shift. It also explains that diphthongs like /eo/ monophthongized into modern vowel sounds differently depending on regional dialects in England. The phonological evolution of vowels provides insight into the development of the English language.

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    This document summarizes the phonological changes that English vowels underwent from Old English to present-day English. It describes how short vowels like /ɑ/ fronted over time, and long vowels like /ɑ:/ underwent the Great Vowel Shift. It also explains that diphthongs like /eo/ monophthongized into modern vowel sounds differently depending on regional dialects in England. The phonological evolution of vowels provides insight into the development of the English language.

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    Free Changes Short Vowels: ME (A) ME (A)

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    This document summarizes the phonological changes that English vowels underwent from Old English to present-day English. It describes how short vowels like /ɑ/ fronted over time, and long vowels like /ɑ:/ underwent the Great Vowel Shift. It also explains that diphthongs like /eo/ monophthongized into modern vowel sounds differently depending on regional dialects in England. The phonological evolution of vowels provides insight into the development of the English language.

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    FREE CHANGES

    SHORT VOWELS

    OE [i] > ME [i] > ModE [i] > Pd.E. []


    OE [e] > ME [e] > ModE [e] > Pd.E. [e]
    OE [] > ME [a] > 1653 [] > Pd.E. []
    Free Change Fronting

    OE [] > ME [a] > 1653 [] > Pd.E. []


    Fronting
    OE [o] > ME [o] > ModE [o] > Pd.E. []
    OE [u] > ME [u] > 1640 [] > Pd.E. []
    Centralization and Loss of lip-rounding
    OE y [] > ME [i] > ModE [i] > Pd.E. []
    North & Eastern
    Development
    OE y [] > ME [u] > ModE [u] > 1640 [] > Pd.E. []
    Western
    Centralization
    Development
    & Loss of lip-rounding
    OE y [] > ME [e] > ModE [e] > Pd.E. [e]
    Kentish
    Development

    Gramtica Histrica de la Lengua Inglesa

    LONG VOWELS
    OE [i:] >ME [i:] > e.Mod. E. [ai] > Pd.E. [a]
    GVS
    OE [e:] >ME [e:] > eModE [i:] > PdE [i:]
    GVS
    OE [:]> ME [:] > eModE [e:] > [i:] > PdE [i:]
    Free change
    GVS
    OE [:] > ME [:] > e.Mod.E. [o:] > 18th. [ou] > 19th. [u] > Pd.E. []
    South
    GVS
    Diphthon- Centralization
    gization of the first
    element of the dipth.

    OE [o:] > ME [o:] > e.Mod. E. [u:] > PdE [u:]


    GVS
    OE [u:] > ME [u:] > eModE [au] > PdE [a]
    GVS
    OE [:]> ME [i:] > e.Mod.E. [ai] > Pd.E. [a]
    North & Eastern
    GVS
    development
    OE [:]> ME [u:] > eModE [au] > PdE [a]
    Western
    GVS
    development
    OE [:] > ME [e:] > eModE [i:] > PdE [i:]
    Kentish
    GVS
    Gramtica Histrica de la Lengua Inglesa

    Development

    DIPHTHONGS
    OE eo [eo] > ME [e] > ModE [e] >Pd.E. [e]
    Monophthongization
    (Eastern development)
    OE eo [eo] > ME [o] > ModE [o] >Pd.E. []
    Monophthongization
    (Western development)
    OE o [eo:]> ME [e:] > eModE [i:] > PdE [i:]
    Monophthongization GVS
    (Eastern development)
    OE o [eo:] > ME [o:] > e.Mod. E. [u:] > PdE [u:]
    Monophthongization
    GVS
    (Western development)
    OE ea [a] > ME [a] > 1653 [] > Pd.E. []
    Monophthongization Fronting
    + Free change

    OE a [a:] > ME [:] > eModE [e:] > [i:] > PdE [i:]
    Monophthongization GVS

    Gramtica Histrica de la Lengua Inglesa

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