| 单词 | great vowel shift |
| 释义 | Great Vowel Shift in British Englishnoun linguistics a phonetic change that took place during the transition from Middle to Modern English, whereby the long vowels were raised (eː became iː, oː became uː, etc). The vowels (iː) and (uː) underwent breaking and became the diphthongs (aɪ) and (aʊ) Great Vowel Shift in American English the complex series of sound developments (c. 1400 to c. 1750) which changed the vowel system of Middle English into that of Modern English:Middle English long high vowels ( (i) and ; u) ) changed to Modern English diphthongs (; aɪ) and ; aʊ) ), and long mid and low vowels (; eɪ) , ; oʊ) , and ; ɑ) ) were raised in their tongue positions to the Modern English sounds (; i) , ; u) , and ; eɪ) ), but the orthography remained largely the same |
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