VOWELS
What types of vowels exist in Middle English?
Understressed and Stressed
What are the changes that involve phoneme consonants?
The glides [w] and [j] and the voiced velar fricative.
How many diphthongs were there during Middle English?
Four: High, Close-mid, Open-mid and Low.
What are the vowels that have 2 unstressed syllables?
a, e
What were the types of changes in the vowel fricative consonants?
The phonemic transcriptions of “colour”, “water” and “singer” are:
a) / kΛlə /, / wɔ:tə /, / sɪŋə /
b) / kɑlə /, / wɔ:tə /, /si: ŋə /
a) / kΛlə /, / wɔ:tə /, / sɪŋə /
In the 13th century, the lengthening quantitative vowels were affected, which vowels were affected?
a, o, e
Some important influence of consonants on loanwords in Middle English.
French distinction between (f) and (v).
From which language were the borrowings in English from Middle English?
French
Which year did Middle English come into existence?
End of the 11th century
Some loss of final vowels that occurred in Middle English.
With loss of final unstressed vowels, voicing remainded but, after condition it disappeared.
What are the 7 diphthongs of Middle English?
iʊ, eʊ, aʊ, ai, ɔʊ, oi and ʊi.
What is the qualitative distinction in ME according to the topic lengthening and shortening?
Long vowels are more tense and short vowels are more lax.
What type of consonants existed during Middle English?
Voiced fricatives consonants.
What are the two diphthongs that remained the same in Middle English?
ɔʊ and ʊi.