[ɛ]→[ẽ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5
Open-mid front unrounded vowel to Nasalized close-mid front unrounded vowel
The transformation from an open-mid front unrounded vowel (ɛ) to a nasalized close-mid front unrounded vowel (ẽ) is a documented phonetic shift involving both nasalization and a change in vowel height. This process typically occurs when an oral vowel becomes nasalized due to the influence of an adjacent nasal consonant, which can then trigger a raising of the vowel's articulation.
Phonetic Effects
Nasalization, Vowel Raising
Language Examples
/ɛ/→[ẽ]— In Horb Swabian, the oral open-mid front unrounded vowel /ɛ/ surfaces as the nasalized close-mid front unrounded vowel [ẽ] in contexts of regressive nasalization.
Related Transformations
More Nasalization Shifts
Sources & References
- Kniess, T. B. (2025). NASALIZATION AND NASAL VOWELS IN THE SWABIAN DIALECT OF HORB: A PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF KAUFFMANN 1890. IU ScholarWorks.
- Nasal vowel - Wikipedia.
- Evidence for vowel nasalization in early Greek in - Brill.
- Effects of the Postvocalic Nasal on the Perception of American English Vowels by Native Speakers of American English and Japanese (Chapter 8) - Second Language Speech Learning - Cambridge University Press & Assessment.
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