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Affected Vowels Gvs Long Sounds Pushing Place Articulation

Front Which vowels were affected by the GVS and how were they affected?
Back It affected long vowel sounds, pushing their place of articulation higher in the mouth. If they could go no higher, they dropped down and became dipthongs.

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