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A Remark on the Great Vowel Shift

Pages 183-187 | Published online: 16 Jun 2015

  • Cf. furthermore instances like coomb (‘deep valley’), tomb, droop, loop, stoop, troop.
  • The above merger is not to be regarded as posterior to the shift ( shortened to ǐ, shortened to ˇ), but as a phonemic stage preliminary to the diphthongization. As a matter of fact the change of to i in “weak” syllables is according to Jespersen attested occasionally as early as the fourteenth century, cf. city, beauty, country, etc. from French -é> M.E. > shortened to . This means that in late M.E. the relation between the long and the short vowels shifted from

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