Middle English Phonetics

Weakening and disappearance of unstressed vowels is called...

The process when all long vowels became short before consonant clusters is called ...

The process when short vowels became long is called ...

The process when OE palatal [k’] developed into the affricate [t∫] is called ...

Old English spelling was based on .... (what?) principle.

Middle English spelling was based on .... (what?) principle.

Old English diphthongs turned into ...

New diphthongs appeared due to .... of [j], [γ] and [w]

a type of fricatives, narrower and sharper than all other fricatives ([f, v, , ð, h]) – [s, z, ∫,ʒ] is called...

sounds consisting of a plosive immediately followed by a fricative – [t∫, dʒ] are called