The monophthongisation of diphthongs before dorsal fricatives: A corpus study
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2009
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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The paper discusses the geographical distribution of the monophthongisation of (1) the diphthong
[ei] (< [e:ç]) before the palatal fricative [ç] (i.e. [eiç > i:ç]) and (2) the diphthong [ou] (< [o:x])
before the velar fricative [x] (i.e. [oux > u:x] in words like high an bough. The resulting monophthongs
became the input to the diphthongisation rule, a part of the Great Vowel Shift. On the
basis of forty-nine Middle English poetic texts from the Chadwyck-Healey online corpus an effort
is made here to establish temporal and dialectal conditioning of the change.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 45.2 (2009), pp. 3-16