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[au]→[ou]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Raising GVS Germanic Vowel Shift

Diphthong au to Diphthong ou

The raising of back-rounded nuclei in diphthongs like 'au' leads toward 'ou' or higher configurations, often seen in systematic vowel shifts.

Phonetic Effects

Raising

Language Examples

English (Great Vowel Shift) Germanic

stone [ɔ:]→stone [ou]— Part of the Great Vowel Shift where Middle English long [ɔ:] raised to [o:] and later diphthongized into [ou].

Related Transformations

Reverse pre-diphthongization

More Raising Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction

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