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Excerpt from An Historical Study of the E-Vowel in Accented Syllables in English: A Dissertation Presented to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
A brief review of the Middle Transitional period is given as forming a connecting link between Middle and Modern English, and then the modern period is considered. Here it is shown what the two é-sounds, open and close, of Middle English developed into during the several centuries of the modern period, and what other vowels and diphthongs, as a, and ai, ei, came to have the value of long e, and, further, how even these later came to have another sound than the pure é-sound. So then it appears that the pure phonetic é-sound, open and close, from being quite a common sound in anglo-saxon and far more so in Middle English, came in Early Modern English to be less common, and that this sound in present Living English is of very rare occurrence. For the material of the modern period I have relied almost entirely on Ellis's monumental work, Early English Pronunciation.
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