Great Vowel Shift

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A major change in the pronunciation of the English language, affecting the sounds of long vowels, that took place in England between 1350 and 1700.
    — Because English spelling was becoming standardized in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Great Vowel Shift is responsible for many of the peculiarities of English spelling.

词形变化

the Great Vowel Shift canonical

词源

Coined by Danish linguist Otto Jespersen.
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