Go back a little further though, and you will begin to struggle, partly thanks to what is known as the Great Vowel Shift, or ...

The concept of vowel grade by which morphological features in some Indo-European languages are signaled by change in the quality of the vowel of a given form has long been recognized. More recently, ...

The articulatory features that distinguish different vowel sounds are conventionally described along a two-dimensional coordinate system that naturally represents the position of the highest point of ...

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