delimiters. Trisyllabic laxing, or trisyllabic shortening, is any of three processes in English in which tense vowels (long vowels or diphthongs) become lax (short...

Phonological history of English Phonological history of English consonants Trisyllabic laxing Freeman, Valerie (2014). "Bag, beg, bagel: Prevelar raising and merger...

two or more syllables followed because of the opposing process of trisyllabic laxing. It only occasionally applied to the high vowels /i/ and /u/, e.g...

dictionary. Checked and free vowels Vowel reduction Fortis and lenis Trisyllabic laxing Matthews, Peter Hugoe (2014). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics...

or more consonants when two syllables followed (an early form of trisyllabic laxing). Diphthong smoothing: Inherited height-harmonic diphthongs were monophthongized...

English of England, Australasia, and South Africa. Happy-tensing: final lax [ɪ] becomes tense [i] in words like "happy". Absent from some dialects. Yod-dropping:...

alternations in child vs. children, keep vs. kept, meet vs. met; and trisyllabic laxing, which is responsible for alternations such as grateful vs. gratitude...

Starcraft 2 by Team Liquid Taiwanese Sign Language, used in Taiwan Trisyllabic laxing, a process in English whereby long vowels become short Turkish Sign...

vowel in RP in such words as era, patent and lever.[citation needed] Trisyllabic laxing however is somewhat less common in GA than in RP, for example in privacy...

Canadian Shift Scottish vowel length rule Northern Cities Vowel Shift Trisyllabic laxing Southern American English Germanic a-mutation Germanic umlaut I-mutation...