音里変化としての大母音推移

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Great Vowel Shift (henceforth GVS) has been thought to be a change in vowel quality, namely the raising of the tongue position of long vowels by one degree and the diphthongization of the highest vowels [i : ] and [u : ]. In most of the frameworks of phonology, including the framework of Dependency Phonology, in which we will try a new analysis of GVS, GVS is apparently a change in quality. Taking the 'weight' of vowels into consideration, however, it has become clear that GVS is a change in vowel quantity, not in quality. It has also become clear that GVS, which is generally taken as a combination of two changes of quite different characters, raising and diphthongization, is a unique process of 'lightening' of vowels. This 'lightening' of vowels is a long continuous process, which is still in progress in Present - day English, from the period of Old English.
山脇学園短期大学の論文
2007-03-15