![]() Other such theories involve regional issues these are evidently real through the irregularly changing dialects of Middle English, and Early Modern English. Eliminating final vowel, inflections, and many other influences have shaped English from these languages, which is why I believe this is the most notable of the theories of the Great Vowel Shift. These are the theories I agree mostly upon due to changes of English language of that time influenced greatly from such languages that were thought to be of more prestige. Diensberg, Bernhard, Folia Linguistica Historica, (1998)) (Linguistic Change in English: The Case of the Great Vowel Shift from the Perspective of Phonological Alternations Due to the Wholesale Borrowing of Anglo-French Loanwords. Dialects in Old French are shown with the creation of five “competing English phonological systems in the late medieval and modern periods.” The raised e in Middle English, which spread e to native lexicon, is noted as characteristic of French loan words thought to be similar and similarly the movement of /e:/ to /i:/ (Interestingly enough predating the Great Vowel Shift) “ spread from a corresponding alternation before s, v, & r in French loanwords.” Such changes were also shown in Gallo-Romance loans, “many of which are conditioned by tonic vs pretonic position in the source dialects”. Evidence is given through variation in vowels of Present Day English created by the Middle English period’s stressed vowels, “particularly the long high mid & low mid vowels & diphthongs ending in –i”. (2000))Īnother similar theory is that the loan words from Romance languages during the Middle English and Early Modern English helped to shape the English vowels during this time. The Great Vowel Shift and Anglo-French Loanwords: A Rejoinder to Diensberg 1998. The loss of unstressed final syllables may be connected to the changes in long stressed vowels.” (Bertacca, Antonio. “The diphthongization of Middle English /i:/, the alternation between /o:/ and /e:/, as well as the loss of inflectional morphology. One such of these theories states that the Great Vowel Shift occurred “due to an influx of Old French loan words coming into adoption into Middle English.” This theory has proof lying in such problems as the failed union of /e:/ with / :/. Of the previously listed groups of theories, the most plausible in my mind would be in concerns with the massive influx of loan words. ![]() These groups of theories argue occurrence through regional issues, mass adoptions of foreign lexicons, chain shifting, and to suit the ever-changing English language, and society. The theories, being arguments pushed off previous theories can be grouped to some extent, arguing for, or against other past theories. ![]() The Great Vowel Shift has been attributed to many factors in a never-ending debate of linguistics over the underlying cause of the GVS.
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