[ə]→[i]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Mid central vowel to Close front unrounded vowel

The shift from [ə] to [i] often occurs through vowel coloring from neighboring palatal consonants or as a process known as 'Happy-tensing', where a final reduced vowel is strengthened and raised.

Phonetic Effects

Raising, Tensing, Jer-strengthening

Language Examples

Modern English Germanic

happy [ɪ] / [ə]→happy [i]— Final reduced vowel strengthening in many modern dialects.

Old Church Slavonic to Russian Slavic

dĭnĭ [ь]→den' [e] / [i]— Strengthening of the 'soft jer' (a schwa-like ultra-short vowel) in stressed positions.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Raising Shifts

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

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