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The second Great Vowel Shift?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Laurie Bauer
Laurie Bauer
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(Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
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In this paper it will be claimed that English is currently undergoing a vowel shift similar in effect to the fifteenth century Great Vowel Shift. A comment to this effect is made by Hawkins (1973), but the idea is not developed there. Evidence will be taken from twentieth-century descriptions of English, and from descriptions of varieties of English.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , December 1979 , pp. 57 - 66
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1979

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