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Over recent decades, the qualities of most vowels have shifted in standard British pronunciation. The various changes add up to a large-scale ‘anti- clockwise’ shift in the vowel system. However, the phonetic symbols most widely in use for British English reflect hardly any of these changes.
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Lindsey, G. (2019). Chapter 4 The Anti-clockwise Vowel Shift. In: English After RP. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04357-5_5
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