delimiters. Trisyllabic laxing, or trisyllabic shortening, is any of three processes in English in which tense vowels (long vowels or diphthongs) become lax (short...

Phonological history of English Phonological history of English consonants Trisyllabic laxing Freeman, Valerie (2014). "Bag, beg, bagel: Prevelar raising and merger...

two or more syllables followed because of the opposing process of trisyllabic laxing. It only occasionally applied to the high vowels /i/ and /u/, e.g...

dictionary. Checked and free vowels Vowel reduction Fortis and lenis Trisyllabic laxing Matthews, Peter Hugoe (2014). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics...

or more consonants when two syllables followed (an early form of trisyllabic laxing). Diphthong smoothing: Inherited height-harmonic diphthongs were monophthongized...

Language, used in Taiwan Tanzanian Sign Language, used in Tanzania Trisyllabic laxing, a process in English whereby long vowels become short Turkish Sign...

English of England, Australasia, and South Africa. Happy-tensing: final lax [ɪ] becomes tense [i] in words like "happy". Absent from some dialects. Yod-dropping:...

Canadian Shift Scottish vowel length rule Northern Cities Vowel Shift Trisyllabic laxing Southern American English Germanic a-mutation Germanic umlaut I-mutation...

vowel in RP in such words as era, patent and lever.[citation needed] Trisyllabic laxing however is somewhat less common in GA than in RP, for example in privacy...

alternations in child vs. children, keep vs. kept, meet vs. met; and trisyllabic laxing, which is responsible for alternations such as grateful vs. gratitude...

two or more syllables followed because of the opposing process of trisyllabic laxing. It only occasionally applied to the high vowels /i/ and /u/: Old...

ˈpɹɪvəsiː/; Dynasty and patronise, by contrast, are usually subject to trisyllabic laxing (/ˈdɪnəstiː, ˈpætrɔnɑɪz/) like in Britain, alongside US-derived /ˈdɑɪnəstiː...

Phonological history of English Phonological history of English vowels Trisyllabic laxing Great Vowel Shift Foyer may also be pronounced /ˈfɑɪeɪ/ or /ˈfwɑːjeɪ/...

acid vs. acidity, divine vs. divinity, sane vs. sanity). See also: Trisyllabic laxing. Another example includes words like mean /ˈmiːn/ and meant /ˈmɛnt/...

bisyllable and bisyllabic) for a word of two syllables; trisyllable (and trisyllabic) for a word of three syllables; and polysyllable (and polysyllabic),...

[ˈtɹ̩tl̩] (or [ˈkɝːsɚ], [ˈkɝːtən], and [ˈtɝːtəl]), and even a few that are trisyllabic, at least in some accents, such as purpler [ˈpɹ̩.pl̩.ɹ̩], hurdler [ˈhɹ̩...

form of a high tone, as may the two initial syllables. For example, in trisyllabic words, there are four possible tone patterns: 메누리 ménuri [mé.nu.ɾi] 'daughter-in-law'...

proslepsis, syllabic, syllabism, syllable, syllabogram, syllepsis, trisyllabic, trisyllable lab-, laps- slide, slip Latin labi, lapsus collapse, collapsible...

proslepsis, syllabic, syllabism, syllable, syllabogram, syllepsis, trisyllabic, trisyllable lab-, laps- slide, slip Latin labi, lapsus collapse, collapsible...

41–59. doi:10.1080/07268609008599431. Wang Jialing, The Neutral Tone in Trisyllabic Sequences in Chinese Dialects, Tianjin Normal University, 2004 Zhang...

matekmatekrn∆ 'little things' is the only exception to this rule, as its base is trisyllabic, expanded by the derivative suffix-n∆ which shows reduplication. There...

are word tones that are spread across the syllables of the word. In trisyllabic words with the grave accent, the second fall in pitch is distributed...