[ɛ]→[i]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5
Open-mid front unrounded vowel to Close front unrounded vowel
Extreme raising of [ɛ] to the high-front vowel [i] is documented in specific phonetic environments, such as before nasal consonants in certain English and Ancient Greek dialects.
Phonetic Effects
Vowel Raising, Pin-Pen Merger
Language Examples
pen [pɛn]→pin [pɪn]— Pin-pen merger: [ɛ] raises to [ɪ] before nasal consonants in Southern and some Midland US English.
en [ɛ-]→in [i-]— Ancient Greek ε raised to ι before nasals in Arcado-Cypriot dialect group.
Related Transformations
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