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* Old Ash solidifies stress on last heavy syllable and transforms many consonants through suprasegmentals. | * Old Ash solidifies stress on the last heavy syllable and transforms many consonants through suprasegmentals. | ||
* Middle Ash reduces and elides vowels, yielding near-modern forms but temporarily has a five-vowel system. | * Middle Ash reduces and elides vowels, yielding near-modern forms but temporarily has a five-vowel system. | ||
* By Early Modern Ash the stress shifts to the root syllable and vowels reduce back to three, resolving schwas to modern qualities. | * By Early Modern Ash the stress shifts to the root syllable and vowels reduce back to three, resolving schwas to modern qualities. | ||
* Modern Ash reduces some diphthongs from Early Modern Ash to monophthongs but creates new ones by eliding intervocalic consonants. | * Modern Ash reduces some diphthongs from Early Modern Ash to monophthongs but creates new ones by eliding intervocalic consonants. | ||