Of vowel shifts great, small, long and short  

Oleh:

Schendl, Herbert ; Ritt, Nikolaus

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 24 no. 3-4 (2002), page 409–421.
Topik: Chain shift; Great Vowel Shift; Short Vowel Shift; Historiography; Constructivism vs. realism; Phonology; Early Modern English
Fulltext: 24_03-04_Schendl.pdf (157.32KB)

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This paper argues that the development of Early Modern English short vowels can be accounted for in terms of a chain shift which essentially lowered and centralised them. The shift, which we propose to call Short Vowel Shift, is as coherent and systematic as the comparably well established Great Vowel Shift. At the same time it is argued that both shifts represent historiographic constructs, or stories, whose plausibility depends not only on their truth value but at least as much on their fruitfulness and on the consiliences they produce.

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