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Close vowel
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(Pron.) a vowel which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of the cavity of the mouth.
See under Close, a.

See also: Close Vowel



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Gothic rule of vowel deletion, lowering of the short high vowels /i u/to /e o/, or relic forms of Verner's law (cf.
Reduplication and the Old English strong verbs class VII (1) by Adamczyk, Elzbieta / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
The vowel *a later underwent a drift to the modern high vowel [?
Livonian gradation: types and genesis/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by Viitso, Tiit-Rein / Linguistica Uralica
Probably most controversial aspect of Sievers' law in Old English is its quite enigmatic relation to reductive developments operative in Old English, namely apocope and syncope (traditionally subsumed under the common name of high vowel deletion).
Old English reflexes of Sievers' Law by Adamczyk, Elzbieta / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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