Middle English phonology | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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Middle English phonology


00:00:57 1 Sound inventory
00:01:14 1.1 Consonants
00:01:37 1.2 Consonant allophones
00:03:01 1.2.1 Voiced fricatives
00:06:21 1.3 Vowels
00:06:29 1.3.1 Monophthongs
00:09:17 1.3.2 Diphthongs
00:10:58 2 Phonological processes
00:11:22 2.1 Homorganic lengthening
00:11:51 2.2 Stressed vowel changes
00:14:03 2.3 Reduction and loss of unstressed vowels
00:15:29 2.4 Vocalization of span[ɣ]
00:16:01 2.5 Breaking
00:16:33 2.6 Open-syllable lengthening
00:18:09 2.7 Trisyllabic laxing
00:18:55 2.8 Pre-cluster shortening
00:19:57 2.9 Reduction of double consonants
00:20:31 2.10 H-loss
00:23:33 2.11 Great Vowel Shift
00:24:00 2.12 Diphthong loss
00:24:42 3 Vowel equivalents from Old English to Modern English
00:25:10 3.1 Monophthongs
00:26:52 3.2 Diphthongs



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Middle English phonology is necessarily somewhat speculative, since it is preserved only as a written language. Nevertheless, there is a very large text corpus of Middle English. The dialects of Middle English vary greatly over both time and place, and in contrast with Old English and Modern English, spelling was usually phonetic rather than conventional. Words were generally spelled according to how they sounded to the person writing a text, rather than according to a formalised system that might not accurately represent the way the writer's dialect was pronounced, as Modern English is today.
The Middle English speech of the city of London in the late 14th century (essentially, the speech of Geoffrey Chaucer) is used as the standard Middle English dialect in teaching and when specifying "the" grammar or phonology of Middle English.  It is this form that is described below, unless otherwise indicated.
In the rest of the article, abbreviations are used as follows: