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   ENGLISH PHONOLOGY

   Main Periods

   & Factors of

   Development

   A Survey of Sound Change from Old to Modern English

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   What is English Phonology?

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   Phonology is the study of sound systems — how sounds function and pattern within a language.

   English phonology has evolved dramatically over 1,500 years of continuous change.

   Old English

   Middle English

   Modern English

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   01

   OLD

   ENGLISH

   450 – 1100 AD

   Germanic

   Anglo-Saxon

   Roots

   Key Phonological Features:

   Rich consonant clusters & long vowels

   No Great Vowel Shift yet — pure sounds

   Heavy influence of Norse & Latin

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   02

   Middle English Period

   1100 – 1500 AD

   Norman Conquest Impact

   French vocabulary reshaped English

   pronunciation and stress patterns

   Sound Simplification

   Reduction of inflectional endings;

   -n, -m dropped from many words

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   THE GREAT

   VOWEL SHIFT

   c. 1400 – 1700

   The most significant phonological event in the history of English.

   /iː/ → /aɪ/

   "time"

   /uː/ → /aʊ/

   "house"

   /eː/ → /iː/

   "meet"

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   Early Modern → Modern English

   1500

   Early Modern

   Starts

   1755

   Johnson's

   Dictionary

   1870s

   RP Standard

   Emerges

   Today

   Global

   Varieties

   Key Developments:

   Printing press (1476) froze spelling, widening speech-script gap

   RP (Received Pronunciation) emerged as prestige standard

   20th-century: global spread → new accents, phonological diversity

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   FACTOR 01

   Germanic Roots & Migrations

   ~450

   AD

   Anglo-Saxon

   arrival in Britain

   Angles, Saxons, and Jutes brought

   West Germanic phonological patterns:

   Consonant mutation (umlaut)

   Strong stress on root syllables

   Fricative voicing patterns

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   FACTOR 02

   Language Contact & Borrowing

   Old Norse

   8th–11th c.

   Simplified grammar;

   consonant clusters

   French

   1066 onward

   New stress patterns;

   fricative sounds

   Latin

   All periods

   Scholarly loanwords;

   new phonemes

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   FACTOR 03

   Social &

   Technological

   Forces

   1

   Printing Press (1476) — Standardised spelling — froze phonetic representation

   2

   Urbanisation — Dialect contact accelerated vowel shifts

   3

   Education & Media — Radio & TV spread RP as prestige phonology

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   1476

   Caxton's Press

   Changed Everything

   Spelling fixed;

   accents kept shifting

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    CONCLUSION

    English phonology is the product

    of migration, conquest & social change.

    Each period left permanent traces in how English sounds are produced.

    Phonological change is driven by contact, prestige, and technology.

    Understanding these forces illuminates the nature of all language evolution.

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    Introduction to

    English

    Phonology

    The Science of Speech Sounds

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    What is

    Phonology?

    The study of sound systems and patterns in human language.

    It explores how sounds function and are organized within a language.

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    Phonemes

    The smallest units of sound that distinguish meaning.

    /p/

    "pat"

    /b/

    "bat"

    /k/

    "cat"

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    Consonants

    English has 24 consonant phonemes.

    Plosives

    /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, /g/

    Fricatives

    /f/, /v/, /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/

    Nasals

    /m/, /n/, /ŋ/

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    Vowels

    English has approximately 20 vowel sounds — far more than 5 letters suggest.

    Monophthongs

    Pure vowels — one steady sound

    /ɪ/ (bit), /ɛ/ (bed), /æ/ (cat)

    Diphthongs

    Gliding vowels — two sounds

    /eɪ/ (day), /aɪ/ (my), /ɔɪ/ (boy)

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    Syllable Structure

    Every syllable has a nucleus (vowel) and optional onset and coda.

    Onset

    /str/

    Initial consonants

    Nucleus

    /ɛ/

    The vowel core

    Coda

    /ŋθ/

    Final consonants

    Example: "strength" = str + ɛ + ŋθ

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    Stress &

    Intonation

    Word Stress: Emphasis on one syllable: PHO·to·graph vs pho·TOG·ra·phy

    Sentence Stress: Key words carry more weight, signaling importance

    Intonation: Pitch movement conveys questions, emotions, and meaning

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    Connected Speech

    Sounds change when words flow together in natural speech.

    Assimilation

    "ten bikes" → "tem bikes"

    Elision

    "last night" → "las' night"

    Linking

    "turn it off" → "tur-nit-off"

    Weak Forms

    "and" → /ənd/ or /ən/

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    IPA &

    Transcription

    The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) provides a universal

    writing system for all speech sounds.

    phonology → /fəˈnɒlədʒi/

    thought → /θɔːt/

    through → /θruː/

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    Conclusion

    English phonology reveals that language is a structured system of sounds. Mastering phonemes, syllables, stress, and connected speech is fundamental to understanding and communicating effectively in English.