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Vowel shift

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    Vowel Shift
    /∫ift/ n. 1. Any phonological development in a language in which a whole class of vowels undergoes a systematic change in quality, such as the Great Vowel Shift of English. 2. See Great Vowel Shift (sense 2).... more


     
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