bradrn wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 11:08 am
[ðə‿ˈbæɾuə ɑn ðə‿ˈjistʰən βʌntʰ ə‿ðə‿ˈsɛkʰənd wɜːwd wɔː ˈkɑnstʰˌtʰutʰəd ðə‿ˈlɑːʤəst ˈmɪləˌtβi ˌkʰɑnβənˈtʰeɪʃən ən ˈhɪstβi ‖ ðeɪ wə‿ˈkʰɛβəktʰəˌβaɪəd baɪ ənˈβɛsəˌdɛntʰəd fəˈβɑstʰi ænd βuˈtʰælətʰi | ˈhowˌseju dəˈstβʌkʃən | mæs ˌdipɔːˈtʰeɪʃənz | ænd əˈmɛns lɔs ə‿laɪf dʒju tʰ‿ˈkʰɑmbæt | stʰɑːˈveɪʃən | əkˈspʰoʊʒə | dəˈziə | ænd ˈmæskəi]
The battles on the Eastern Front of the Second World War constituted the largest military confrontation in history. They were characterised by unprecedented ferocity and brutality, wholesale destruction, mass deportations, and immense loss of life due to combat, starvation, exposure, disease, and massacres.
(1) Labial-Lateral consonant chain shift, [w] > [ɫ], [β] > [w], [br]b[/br] > [β] > [v], [l] > [ʎ]
(1.1) [j] > [ʎ] initially
(1.2) Coalescence of new sequences, [wʌ] > [wo], [nw] > [m], [ewə eju] > [jou], [ju] > [iy], [əˈwɑ] > [wou]
(2.) Second Great Vowel Shift, affects chiefly the long vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs at first: [aɪ aɪə] > [aː] ("why-wire" merger), [ɔː ou] > [oː] ("stow-store" merger), [eɪ] > [ɔɪ] > [waː], [ɑː] > [ɑə] > [eə] > [ɛː], [əi ɜː] > [ɛː] ("star-stir" merger), [iy] > [yː]
(2.1) Continuation of the above, [æ ə] > [ɛ] before consonants, but postvocalically [ə] disappears, lengthening the preceding vowel
(2.2) Continuation of the above: [ɑ ʌ] > [a] ("bot-but" merger), [ɪ] > [i]
(2.3) "Of"-coalescence, intrusion of a dialectal form [əw] > [ɔ] used for possessum-marking
(2.4) "The"-cliticisation, attaching it to the beginning of the word as a definite marker; following voiceless consonants may voice in assimilation to it
(2.5) "To"-cliticisation, as above.
(2.5) "Military" gains a "corrected" pronunciation, so does "history"
(2.6) "Were" becomes a fully realised word, possibly from dialectal intrusion or a widespread hypercorrection.
(2.7) [sj] > [ʃ], [ʃ ʤ] > [s dz] before [ɛ], [ɛ] > [a] after [ʒ]; [tʰ s z] > [tʃʰ ʃ ʒ] before [i], but the first is blocked by preceding [s]
(3.) s-dropping (loss of terminal [z], but [s] is not affected), analogisation of some plural forming patterns: the plural of "house" becomes "hyce", the plural of "moose" becomes "meece", otherwise the plural marker is [ɛn], from a few common words like "children"; Dutch and German influence probably also plays a role; words ending in a vowel simply add [n]
A few apostrophes and the orthographical representation of a few new markers become accepted, and the "ar er ir ur" vowels in stressed position tend to all be spelled "er" where descended from earlier "ar", and "ir" elsewhere, but there is not infrequent confusion between them. Earlier "long a" > "oi" was accepted earlier (at first facetiously, but then becoming widespread), and now remains as a historical spelling.
The velar lateral tends to be spelled "wl" and [w] as "brw", "rw", "wr", and all manners of other atrocities, owing to a growing fascination with Chaucer, Old Norse, and Old English having fostered some desire to return to "older" ideas of spelling. Some instances of newer [tʃʰ] are "ch", but are often still "t". Many cases of short o/u end up spelled "a", after a period of great confusion. The old orthography and "Classical English" are taught in schools, and reading books in the older style is commonplace, with being able to compose text in it being a sort of thing pretentious people, or historical reenactors, might still do, though this is not part of regular school curriculum. As a holdover from [ai] > [aː], [aː] is often spelled "y", but may be "i" in some situations.
['ðvɛ.ɾuːn an 'ðʎistʰɛn wontʰɔ ðzɛkʰɛnd ɫɛːɫd woː ˈkanstʰˌtʰutʰɛd 'ðʎɛːdzɛst ˈmilɛˌtɛwi ˌkʰamɛnˈtʰwaːsɛnnɛn ɛn ˈhɪstɛwi ‖ ðwaː ɫɛː ˈtʃʰoːktʰɛˌwaːd vaː ɛnˈwɛsɛˌdɛntʰɛd fwoːstʰi ɛnd wuˈtʰɛlɛtʃʰi | ˈhoːˌʃoː dɛˈstwoksɛn | mɛs ˌdipoːˈtʰwaːsɛn.nɛn | ɛnd ɛˈmɛns lɔs.sɔ laːf dʒyː tʰkʰamvɛt | stʰɛːˈvwaːsɛn | ɛkˈspʰoːʒa | dɛˈʒiː | ɛnd ˈmɛskɛː.wɛn]
Th'battles an th'listern front o' th'seckend wlorld wore canst'tuted th'lergest mileterry canfrentoissenen en histewry. Thwy wlere chorcterwide by enprwesedented frwawsty end bwrutelity, wholshore destrwoksen, mess diportoissennen, end emmence loss o' lyfe due t'cambet, stervoissen, exsporger, desie end messkerwren.