Changes in Long Vowels

a: name
Long a in ME becomes e in PDE. ME a is the only phoneme to go through three steps in the GVS. The schwa at the end of ME name is lost through the usual processes.
 
 
ME 
after step 3 
after step 5 
PDE 
"name" 




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