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The Great Vowel Shift | Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website

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The Great Vowel Shift - ELLO

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The Great Vowel Shift (GVS) – which started in the Early Modern period (15th century) – affected all long vowels of the sound system. Each of these vowels – /i:/, /e:/, /ɜ:/, /ɑ:/, /u:/, /o:/, /ɔ:/ – moved “to a higher position in the vowel space” (Nevalainen 2006:121), but not all at the same time: it “was […] a series of local developments [which] looks like an orderly chain shift ” (Nevalainen …

The Great Vowel Shift: How We Know Language Now

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What is the Great Vowel Shift? - Furman University

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Whatis the Great Vowel Shift? The Great Vowel Shift was a massive sound changeaffecting the long vowelsof English duringthe fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. Basically, the long vowels shiftedupwards; that is, a vowel that used to be pronounced in one place in themouth would be pronounced in a different place, higher up in the mouth. The Great Vowel Shift has had long …

The Great Vowel Shift

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The Great Vowel Shift. The Great VowelShift. One major change in the pronunciation of English took placeroughly between 1400 and 1700; these affected the ‘long’ vowels, and can beillustrated in the diagram below. This is known as the Great Vowel Shift (GVS). Generally, the long vowels became closer, and the original close vowels werediphthongised.