Does the sentence "The lowering of the diphthongs has long been current in many Dutch dialects, and is comparable to the English Great Vowel Shift, and the diphthongisation of long high vowels in Modern High German, which centuries earlier reached the state now found in Polder Dutch." answer the question "What linguistic event in English could we parallel with the Dutch lowering of diphthongs?"

OPTIONS: I. yes. II. no.
I.