The following table illustrates some of the more commonly seen vowel shifts.

This vowel shift is unconditioned, happening in all cases, and not triggered by another sound.

The vowel shift may thus be presented as follows:

This vowel shift has been occurring in six stages:

This was the start of the Great Vowel Shift.

The town's modern name reflects a characteristic vowel shift (from o to a) of the medieval Hungarian language.

Other features of the California vowel shift are mostly found in Southern Oregon.

Not all words underwent certain phases of the Great Vowel Shift.

This distinct vowel shift gives the dialect a stronger, 'uneducated' sound to the outside ears.

Phonetic evidence for the great Mongolian vowel shift'.

This is because the vowel shift brought the already established orthography out of synchronization with pronunciation.

The language undergoes low-level vowel shifts, caused by stress domination within clauses.

Monophthongization is a sound change by which a diphthong becomes a monophthong, a type of vowel shift.

Old English underwent many vowel shifts, and early in its history, velar consonants were palatalized.

The Canadian Shift, is also a common vowel shift found in Ontario.

This terminology reflects their pronunciation before the Great Vowel Shift.

Mongolic vowel shifts and the classification of the Mongolic languages'.

Some weak verbs continue the vowel shift called Rückumlaut ("reverse umlaut").

This research explores the possibility that the vowel shift and the increased domain of intrusive /r/ are linked.

(The historic basis for this is in the Great Vowel Shift.)

The thing that would most completely bewilder our hero would be another Great Vowel Shift.

A vowel shift is a systematic sound change in the pronunciation of the vowel sounds of a language.

A vowel shift can involve a merger of two previously different sounds, or it can be a chain shift.

The vowel shift's weaker beginning signs are also inconsistently present in the Western New England dialect.

The Middle English sound change occurred before the Great Vowel Shift and other changes to the nature of vowels.