What motivated the English Great Vowel Shift?
What are the origins of the Great Vowel Shift?
What were the disadvantages of the Great Vowel Shift? What is the importance of International Phonetic Alphabet? What is phonetic alphabet? What are examples of words with double vowels? How is phonetics useful? Why is the International Phonetic Alphabet important? How has the 'w' sound pronounced in words like why or what evolved among native speakers of English, particularly in the US? What is the International Phonetic Alphabet? What is the difference between phonetics and pronunciation? What are the International Phonetic Alphabet symbols? How do linguists discover the phonetics of ancient languages? Are there some non-agglutinating languages that have vowel harmony? Which english words contain only vowels? Why does English retain archaic spellings, instead of reforming to match how things are pronounced, like other languages do? What is English phonology? What are some examples? What is English phonology? What are a few examples? How do native speakers pronounce a new word? Do they use phonetic symbols? What is a accented syllable? What is an accented syllable? Are there any fusional languages affected by vowel harmony? What is the difference between phonetic, phonology and phoneme? What is the origin of the strange accent of English spoken in India? What is the correct pronunciation of "pronunciation"? What are the best books of phonetics? What are some good books on phonetics? In sumerian is it possible that we are simply missing certain enunciation in the same way the Japanese originally could not not pronounce the L sound? Phonetics: What do you call the words that are pronounced the same, or very similar, in two different languages? Why am I unable to reach a good pronunciation, even though I have been immersed in the English language? Why can’t I get rid of phonetic mistakes? Did Swedish influence Finnish (vocabulary, phonology)? When is the letter Y a consonant and not a vowel?