- ǫ́
merged as /ɔː/;
later on at the
beginning of the 14th century,
delabialization took place: y, øy, au > /i, ɔi, ɛi/; í and ý
merged in
addition to...
-
become rounded, and so the /hw/ of
these words was now
subject to
delabialization: who – Old
English hwā,
Modern English /huː/ whom – Old
English hwǣm...
- the
distinction between /s ʃ/,
especially among monolingual speakers Delabialization of
labialized velars (/kʷ gʷ xʷ ɣʷ/), e.g. nəkkʷni/nukkni > nəkkni...
- dialects.
Changes towards the
modern languages include:
Tundra Nenets:
Delabialization of /wʲ/ → /j/
Lenition of
initial /k/ → /x/
Simplification of /ʔk/...
- Germanic.
Examples of West
Germanic phonological particularities are: The
delabialization of all
labiovelar consonants except word-initially.
Change of *-zw-...
-
pronunciation of /ɛ/ (schnall, Ack -
schnell ("fast"), Eck ("corner"))
delabialization (Kenig, Brieder, Fraide,
Kraiter - König ("king"), Brüder ("brothers")...
- [siŋʷɡʷɑnɑ̃] 'to sing'
versus *sungun [suŋɡun] 'they sang'. Apparently, this
delabialization also
occurred with
labiovelars following /un/,
showing that the language...
- the
bilabial fricative /β/. The
cluster /nkt/
reduced to [ŋt]. /kw/
delabialized to /k/
before back vowels. /ks/
before or
after a consonant, or at the...
-
French anterior vowel [ɥ] (converting it to the
phoneme [u]), the
delabialization of the
phoneme [ɥ] (which
becomes [i]), as well as the palatalization...
-
pronunciation of the
French word
cuisine [kɥizin] as
couwisine [kuwizin]) the
delabialization of the
phoneme [y] for the
phoneme [i] (ex:
pronunciation of the French...
