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Re: Umlaut, Vowel Harmony etc

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 18:16
Tristan Mc Leay wrote:

> > - The sound changes don't necessarily bring all vowels into positions of > influence. In germanic i-mutation, for instance, all that happened was > an /i/ or /j/ brought a backed stressed vowel forwards. It didn't touch > front vowels, and the only unrounded back vowel was /A/, so it didn't > come near /i/.
This isn't quite true. In OE, short front vowels were raised. Long ones weren't touched.