• 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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  • 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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  • This article describes those aspects of the phonological history of English which concern consonants. Reduction of /hw/ – to /h/ in a few words (such as...
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  • § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Old English phonology is necessarily somewhat speculative since Old English is preserved only as a written language...
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  • § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The phonological history of English includes various changes in the phonology of consonant clusters. The H-cluster reductions...
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  • pronounced /ˈsa(ɪ)əns/ with one syllable. Phonological history of English Phonological history of English vowels Trisyllabic laxing Great Vowel Shift...
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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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  • see Phonological history of Old English (dialects). Some of the principal sound changes occurring in the pre-history and history of Old English were...
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  • Old Irish was affected by a series of phonological changes that radically altered its appearance compared with Proto-Celtic and older Celtic languages...
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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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  • set of phonological features that distinguish fortis and lenis consonants (stops, affricates, and fricatives). Phonological analysis of English often...
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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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  • homophonous as /mɛt/. Phonological history of English Phonological history of English vowels Barber, C. L. (1997). Early Modern English. Edinburgh University...
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    Proto-Germanic (see Phonological history of Old English § Palatalization). The earliest varieties of an English language, collectively known as Old English or "Anglo-Saxon"...
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  • see Phonological history of Old English: Vowel lengthening. Late West Saxon (the standard written form of Old English) included matched pairs of short...
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  • portal Influence of French on English Phonological history of English Comparison of American and British English English phonology English studies Inkhorn...
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  • of c. 1100–1200 CE (the Old French period) rather than modern pronunciation. This page documents the phonological history of French from a relatively...
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  • The grammar of Old English differs greatly from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected. As a Germanic language, Old English has a morphological...
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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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  • 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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  • English (AuE) is a non-rhotic variety of English spoken by most native-born Australians. Phonologically, it is one of the most regionally homogeneous language...
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  • was a southern dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent. It was one of four dialect-groups of Old English, the other three being...
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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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  • (linguistics) Language change Phonological history of English consonants Phonological history of English vowels Phonological history of English Sound change Vowel...
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    a summary of the major sound changes affecting vowels in chronological order. For additional detail, see Phonological history of Old English. That these...
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  • of Old English spoken in the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. Together with Mercian, Kentish and West Saxon, it forms one of the sub-categories of Old...
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    listed as being majority seseante. History of the Spanish language Spanish dialects and varieties Spanish phonology Yeísmo See for instance Linguist List...
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  • "phonology" (as in "phonology of English") can refer either to the field of study or to the phonological system of a given language. This is one of the...
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  • Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern...
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  • Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades...
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