fore the voiced consonants:
bid, head, bad;
d) instability o f the glides o f closing diphthongs /ei, ou, ai,
av,
01/ in favour o f prolonging the prominent first elem ents in ad
vanced RP in the London region:
/ei/ —> / e 1/ in
day, made, lay hands, greyer;
/ои/ —» /эи /
in row, road, low hurdless, goal;
/ai/ —> /а 7 or /a:/ in
side, society, sigh;
/au/ —►
/a '7 or /a:7 or
/a:/
in
sow, allow, half;
/
01/ —> / 0' V or / 0' 7:
boy, toy, toil.
A.C . G im son also notes the new relationship betw een the
centring, falling Лэ, еэ, оэ, о э/ and /
1, е, ае, о:/. For example, the
levellin g o f earlier /ге/, /о э / and /
0:/ is now common: poor, pore,
paw; sure, shore, shaw; the centring diphthongs Лэ/ and /г э / are
frequently in opposition: hear-hair, fear-fair, weary-wary1.
It is possible to classify modern changes in English pronun
ciation in the inventory o f vow els and according to their distribu
tion. For exam ple, the changes in the inventary concern: /е /
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