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Open vowel
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See Open, a., 9.

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In its quality, /a/ is a low vowel that in all the quantity degrees is stable and always in the same frequency range.
The cardinal vowels allow for a description of sounds in reference to specific points within the range of possibilities, allowing phoneticians to describe the sounds as higher or lower than a specific point of reference, forward or backward of a fixed point, or in the middle of the space between front and back or high and low vowels.
If he is right, and I cannot see why he should not be, then my impression is that what phase (2) of the Great Vowel Shift really consists of is the surfacing into the standard of the evolution of the mid and low vowels which is typical of V2, inclusive maybe of what Wallis describes as /e: o:/--and commonly assumed by the literature as raised/[epsilon]: [?
 
 
 
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