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English phonology and Phonological history of English low back vowels

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English phonology vs. Phonological history of English low back vowels

Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect. The phonology of the low back vowels of the English language has undergone changes both overall and with regional variations, through Old and Middle English to the present.

Similarities between English phonology and Phonological history of English low back vowels

English phonology and Phonological history of English low back vowels have 19 things in common (in Unionpedia): Cot–caught merger, English language, Fricative consonant, General American, Great Vowel Shift, Hiberno-English, Lexical set, Middle English phonology, Old English phonology, Phonological history of English diphthongs, Phonological history of English vowels, Received Pronunciation, Scottish English, Southern American English, Syllable, Velar consonant, Voicelessness, Vowel, Welsh English.

Cot–caught merger

The cot–caught merger (also known as the low back merger or the merger) is a phonemic merger that has taken place in some varieties of English, between the phonemes which are conventionally represented in the IPA as (which is usually written with au, aw, al or ough as in caught and thought) and (which is usually written with o as in cot and lot).

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Fricative consonant

Fricatives are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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General American

General American (abbreviated as GA or GenAm) is the umbrella variety of American English—the continuum of accents—spoken by a majority of Americans and popularly perceived, among Americans, as lacking any distinctly regional, ethnic, or socioeconomic characteristics.

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Great Vowel Shift

The Great Vowel Shift was a major series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place, beginning in southern England, primarily between 1350 and the 1600s and 1700s, today influencing effectively all dialects of English.

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Hiberno-English

Hiberno‐English (from Latin Hibernia: "Ireland") or Irish English is the set of English dialects natively written and spoken within the island of Ireland (including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).

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Lexical set

A lexical set is a group of words that share a similar phonological feature.

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Middle English phonology

Middle English phonology is necessarily somewhat speculative, since it is preserved only as a written language.

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Old English phonology

Old English phonology is necessarily somewhat speculative since Old English is preserved only as a written language.

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Phonological history of English diphthongs

English diphthongs have undergone many changes since the Old and Middle English periods.

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Phonological history of English vowels

In the history of English phonology, there were many diachronic sound changes affecting vowels, especially involving phonemic splits and mergers.

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Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation (RP) is an accent of Standard English in the United Kingdom and is defined in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary as "the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England", although it can be heard from native speakers throughout England and Wales.

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Scottish English

Scottish English refers to the varieties of English spoken in Scotland.

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Southern American English

Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a large collection of related American English dialects spoken throughout the Southern United States, though increasingly in more rural areas and primarily by white Americans.

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Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.

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Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (known also as the velum).

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Voicelessness

In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating.

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Vowel

A vowel is one of the two principal classes of speech sound, the other being a consonant.

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Welsh English

Welsh English refers to the dialects of English spoken by Welsh people.

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English phonology and Phonological history of English low back vowels Comparison

English phonology has 164 relations, while Phonological history of English low back vowels has 48. As they have in common 19, the Jaccard index is 8.96% = 19 / (164 + 48).

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