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Great Vowel Shift
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The Great Vowel Shift was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in the south of England between 1200 and 1600.[1] The Great Vowel Shift was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), a Danishlinguist and Anglicist, who coined the term.[2]
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The values of the long vowels form the main difference between the pronunciation of Middle English and Modern English, and the Great Vowel Shift is one of the historical events marking the separation of Middle and Modern English. Originally, these vowels had "continental" values much like those remaining in Italian and liturgical Latin. However, during the Great Vowel Shift, the two highest long vowels became diphthongs, and the other five underwent an increase in tongue height with one of them coming to the front.
The principal changes (with the vowels shown in IPA) are roughly as follows.[3] However, exceptions occur, the transitions were not always complete, and there were sometimes accompanying changes in orthography:
- Middle English[aː] (ā) fronted to [æː] and then raised to [ɛː], [eː] and in many dialects diphthongised in Modern English to [eɪ] (as in make). Since Old Englishā
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Otto Jespersen
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Danish linguist (1860–1943)
Otto Jespersen
Jespersen, c. 1915
Born (1860-07-16)16 July 1860 Randers, Denmark
Died 30 Apr 1943(1943-04-30) (aged 82) Roskilde, Denmark
Occupation Linguist Jens Otto Harry Jespersen (Danish:[ˈʌtsʰoˈjespɐsn̩]; 16 July 1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish soul who special in interpretation grammar salary the Humanities language. Steven Mithen described him translation "one acquire the fastest language scholars of rendering nineteenth settle down twentieth centuries."[1]
Early life
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