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Bad–lad split
Development of the new long A
Other pronunciations
TRAP–BATH split
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- Pronunciations in Modern English English phonology
- Low vowel
- Middle English
- Great Vowel Shift
- Rhotic Rhoticity in English
- Mary–merry merger
- Middle English Middle English phonology
- Phonemes Phoneme
- Length Vowel length
- Open syllable lengthening
- English historical vowel correspondences
- Raised Raising (phonetics)
- Diphthongized Diphthongization
- Fronted Fronting (phonetics)
- RP Received Pronunciation
Old and Middle English
- Old English Old English phonology
- Open back Open back unrounded vowel
- Written Old English orthography
- Front Near-open front unrounded vowel
- Silent ⟨e⟩ Silent e
Further development of Middle English /aː/
- Before (historical) /r/ English-language vowel changes before historical /r/
- Standard Southern British
Changes in realization of /a/
- Cockney
- Bad–lad split Pronunciation of English ⟨a⟩
Development of the new long A
- Compensatory lengthening
- Onomatopoeic
- Non-rhotic
- Mary–marry–merry merger
- Analogy Analogical change
- L-vocalization
- Nasal Nasal consonant
- Loanwords Loanword
- French French language
- Nasalization
- Generally developed Phonological history of English low back vowels
- Lexical sets Lexical set
- Alexander
TRAP–BATH split
TRAP–STRUT merger
- Ɐ̟ Near-open central vowel
- Bad–lad split
Bad–lad split
- Phonemic split
- Vowel
- English English
- Syllables Syllable
- Past tense
- Irregular verbs English irregular verbs
- Function words Function word
- Contractions Contraction (grammar)
- Suffixes Suffix
- Daniel Jones Daniel Jones (phonetician)
- Phonemic contrast
- Alfred C. Gimson
- /æ/ raising
- American English
- Minimal pair
- Cambridge University
- Coarticulatory effects Coarticulation
- Adder Vipera berus
- Adder Mathematician
- CAD Computer-aided design
- Jam Fruit preserves
- Jam Traffic congestion
- Mass Mass (liturgy)
- Mass
- SAD Seasonal affective disorder
- Diachronically Historical linguistics
/æ/ raising
- Sociolinguistics
- Accents Accent (dialect)
- Canadian English
- Tensed Tenseness
- Diphthongized Diphthong
- Ɛː Open-mid front unrounded vowel
- Regional accent Regional accents of English speakers
- Nasal consonants
Other pronunciations
- Fronting Front vowel
- Singapore English
- Met-mat merger
- Standard German phonology § Loanwords from English Standard German phonology
- Rounding Rounded vowel
- Dark L
- English-language vowel changes before historical /l/
- Velar consonant
- Reduction Stress and vowel reduction in English
- Schwa
- Syllabic consonant
- (depending on dialect) Weak vowel merger
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Important terminology
english vowel words middle long pronunciation also short broadening trap standard found ɑː modern aː however pronounced american developed æː
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Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| cat | instance of | was found in words | 0.80 | text |
| face | instance of | was found in words | 0.80 | text |
| cat | instance of | pairs | 0.80 | text |
| cart | instance of | pairs | 0.80 | text |
| were pronounced | instance of | pairs | 0.80 | text |
| cat | instance of | which have distinct vowels in pairs | 0.80 | text |
| cart | instance of | which have distinct vowels in pairs | 0.80 | text |
| path | instance of | When broadening applied to words | 0.80 | text |
| it naturally extended to these derivatives | instance of | When broadening applied to words | 0.80 | text |
| palm | instance of | In accents of England the development was subsequently the same as that in words | 0.80 | text |
| bag | instance of | words | 0.80 | text |
| that | instance of | words | 0.80 | text |
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