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Trisyllabic laxing, or trisyllabic shortening, is any of three processes in English in which tense vowels (long vowels or diphthongs) become lax (short monophthongs) if they are followed by two or more syllables, at least the first of which is unstressed, for example, grateful vs gratitude, profound vs profundity.
By a different process, laxing is also found in disyllabic and monosyllabic words, for example, shade vs shadow, lose vs lost.
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delimiters. Trisyllabiclaxing, or trisyllabic shortening, is any of three processes in English in which tense vowels (long vowels or diphthongs) become lax (short...
Phonological history of English Phonological history of English consonants Trisyllabiclaxing Freeman, Valerie (2014). "Bag, beg, bagel: Prevelar raising and merger...
when two or more syllables followed, due to the opposing process of trisyllabiclaxing. It only occasionally applied to the high vowels /i/ and /u/, e.g...
dictionary. Checked and free vowels Vowel reduction Fortis and lenis Trisyllabiclaxing Matthews, Peter Hugoe (2014). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics...
or more consonants when two syllables followed (an early form of trisyllabiclaxing). Diphthong smoothing: Inherited height-harmonic diphthongs were monophthongized...
English of England, Australasia, and South Africa. Happy-tensing: final lax [ɪ] becomes tense [i] in words like "happy". Absent from some dialects. Yod-dropping:...
vowel in RP in such words as era, patent and lever.[citation needed] Trisyllabiclaxing however is somewhat less common in GA than in RP, for example in privacy...
alternations in child vs. children, keep vs. kept, meet vs. met; and trisyllabiclaxing, which is responsible for alternations such as grateful vs. gratitude...
Starcraft 2 by Team Liquid Taiwanese Sign Language, used in Taiwan Trisyllabiclaxing, a process in English whereby long vowels become short Turkish Sign...
Phonological history of English Phonological history of English vowels Trisyllabiclaxing Great Vowel Shift Foyer may also be pronounced /ˈfɑɪeɪ/ or /ˈfwɑːjeɪ/...
ˈpɹɪvəsiː/; Dynasty and patronise, by contrast, are usually subject to trisyllabiclaxing (/ˈdɪnəstiː, ˈpætrɔnɑɪz/) like in Britain, alongside US-derived /ˈdɑɪnəstiː...
acid vs. acidity, divine vs. divinity, sane vs. sanity). See also: Trisyllabiclaxing. Another example includes words like mean /ˈmiːn/ and meant /ˈmɛnt/...
two or more syllables followed because of the opposing process of trisyllabiclaxing. It only occasionally applied to the high vowels /i/ and /u/: Old...
bisyllable and bisyllabic) for a word of two syllables; trisyllable (and trisyllabic) for a word of three syllables; and polysyllable (and polysyllabic),...
[ˈtɹ̩tl̩] (or [ˈkɝːsɚ], [ˈkɝːtən], and [ˈtɝːtəl]), and even a few that are trisyllabic, at least in some accents, such as purpler [ˈpɹ̩.pl̩.ɹ̩], hurdler [ˈhɹ̩...
form of a high tone, as may the two initial syllables. For example, in trisyllabic words, there are four possible tone patterns: 메누리 ménuri [mé.nu.ɾi] 'daughter-in-law'...
41–59. doi:10.1080/07268609008599431. Wang Jialing, The Neutral Tone in Trisyllabic Sequences in Chinese Dialects, Tianjin Normal University, 2004 Zhang...
matekmatekrn∆ 'little things' is the only exception to this rule, as its base is trisyllabic, expanded by the derivative suffix-n∆ which shows reduplication. There...
are word tones that are spread across the syllables of the word. In trisyllabic words with the grave accent, the second fall in pitch is distributed...
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