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ablaut agent appear assimilation auxiliary century Chancery Standard chapter Chaucer Class consonant consonantal segment contexts Cursor Mundi definite article deleted diphthong ealle early Middle English English Studies evidence example extract features singular gender geographical glide grammar graphemic high back Historical Linguistics inflectional suffix inoperative instance insular minuscule involved isogloss kyng language later Middle English linguistic change locative Middle English dialects Middle English manuscripts Middle English texts Midland modal Modern English nawt negative noun Old English Orm's Ormulum orthographic orthographic system output Oxford perhaps Peterborough Chronicle phonetic phonological plural possessive Pres Pret₂ pronoun realized regional represent root vowel scribe script seems sentence sing sonorant sound change speaker spelling system strong verb suggested superficial surface symbols syntactic Syntax tense theory underlying usage variation Vices and Virtues voc cons high vocalic segment words written þan þat þet