John
The Great Vowel Shift. Who can explain to me, what the signs are, because I can't find such vowels and diphthongs in modern English? For example: Modern English doesn't have the diphthong [əɪ].
Nov 24, 2020 7:22 PM
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/i/ is short I (bill, pin, little) /e/ is short E (bed, red, met) /3:/ (the third from top sign on the left) is Ö (bird, world, word) /æ/ is also short E but you should open your mouth wider (bad, cat, that) /ei/ is basically ei (great, grey, play) /au/ - cow, crowd, wow /ai/ - like, Mike, Wi-Fi /eu/ - snow, rose, grow /a/ - I think it is short O (clock, walk, bog)
November 24, 2020
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Look for any phonetics introduction. Look for a chart of the cardinal vowels.
November 25, 2020
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Hi John, what's your purpose with this ? These are not letters of the English alphabet and are only used in the dictionary to show pronunciation. It is not taught in schools, so you don't need to know it to speak, read, and write English.
November 24, 2020
Thank you so much for everyone!
November 25, 2020
As seen from the table all vowels became closer and some of the vowels occupied the place of the next vowel in the column: [e:] changed into [i:], while the more open [ e:] took the place of close [e:] and later moved one step further in the same direction and merged with the former close [e:] in [i:]. Likewise the long [o:] was shifted one step, to become [u:] while ME [u:] changed to [au]. Some long vowels _ [u:], [i:] and [a:] broke into diphthongs, the first element being contrasted to the second as a more open sound: [au], [ai] and [ei], respectively.
November 24, 2020
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