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the history of english old english phonetic system outline oe accentuation. the system of oe vowels. the system of oe consonants. oe accentuation the peculiarity of oe accentuation was the same as in other germanic languages – the principal “dynamic” or “force” stress fell on the root syllable of the word. word stress was fixed in the sense that it did not shift in form-building: it remained on the same syllable in different forms of the word. it should be noted that the suffixes always remained unstressed. the principal stress remained on the root when a prefix was added. with the stress falling on the root syllable, the unstressed vowel underwent the process of weakening and disappearing. the system of oe vowels according to the position of the vocal organs front and back vowels were distinguished in oe. distinctions were also made as to the nearness of the tongue to …

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e combinative sound changes there was one with far reaching effects – front mutation, or i-mutation. this was a series of changes of vowels which took place when there was i, ī, j in the following syllable. i, ī disappeared or changed into e, but it’s original presence can be established by examining the cognate words in other languages. it was a kind of assimilation: the effected vowel being moved to the place of articulation nearer to that of the following vowel, either ī or i, or j. it is impossible to state the exact time of i-mutation. still taking into consideration the fact that no traces of i-mutation could be found in gothic texts (4th c. ad), but its results were reflected in the earliest oe texts (7th c. ad). thus, we may suppose that i-mutation might have taken place in the period between 4-7 centuries. if we take …

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was short, the following consonant was doubled: cnusian  cnyssan (толкать) framian  fremman. short diphthongs and their phonemic status there were 3 essential sources of short diphthongs in oe: 1. oe breaking e  eo or æ  ea if 1) followed by r, l, h + consonant or 2) h in the final position: ærm – earm (рука); æhta  eahta (восемь); æld  eald (старый). 2. palatal diphthongization the diphthongization is caused by the preceding consonant after /k/, /sk/, /3/. e  ie 3efan  3iefan (давать) æ  ea 3æf  3eaf (дал) a  ea scacan  sceaco (to shake) o  eo æ:  ea: nb. the consonants /k’/ and influenced only the front vowels, while the cluster /sk’/ effected also back vowels /o/, /a/. 3. back mutation=velar mutation. the essence of back mutation: the articulation of the back vowel is anticipated in the …

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geminates in oe was i-mutation. under certain conditions i-mutation effected not only the root vowel, but the following consonant too. if the root vowel was short, the following consonant was doubled: cnusian  cnyssan (to push) framian  fremman (to frame) however geminates turned out to be rather unstable. having appeared at the beginning of the oe period, they disintegrated at the end of it. in mode doubling of consonants doesn’t indicate length of a sound. it’s rather a graphical device used to denote shortness of the preceding vowel (potter, kiss). in oe there also was an opposition of palatal contsonats to non-palatal ones: /k/ - /k’/; /g/ - /g’/; /x/ - /x’/; /s/ - /s’/ which disintegrated during the mide period. values of consonant letters in oe in the majority of cases each of oe consonant letters represented a single phoneme, but a few of them had two or …

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the history of english old english phonetic system outline oe accentuation. the system of oe vowels. the system of oe consonants. oe accentuation the peculiarity of oe accentuation was the same as in other germanic languages – the principal “dynamic” or “force” stress fell on the root syllable of the word. word stress was fixed in the sense that it did not shift in form-building: it remained on the same syllable in different forms of the word. it should be noted that the suffixes always remained unstressed. the principal stress remained on the root when a prefix was added. with the stress falling on the root syllable, the unstressed vowel underwent the process of weakening and disappearing. the system of …

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