A History of English Phonemes: From Indo-European to Present-day English |
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accent allophones analogical Anglian assibilated back-vowel became mute Chaucer coalesced denoted diphthongs Dobson early eMoE English Dialect Evidence final position French Fricatives front-vowels gemination Gimson grammarians hence MOE Humber i-mutation Indo-European Instances Kentish language later lengthening in open loanwords London long vowels medial Middle English Midlands Modern English monophthong nasal non-WS North Note OE æ OE eME OE form OFris Old English open syllables open vowel palatal phoneme pret pret.pl Primitive Germanic probably Prokosch pronounced pronunciation reflected reflex rimes Scandinavian short vowels shortening sound sound-change spelling spelt spirant survived Swed tense took place unrounded variants Vcd Br Vcd velar verb Verner's Law voiced voiceless weak-stressed WGic words Wyld