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The front vowels are extremely stable in the speech of older people, but they are the subject of multiple mergers in younger people's speech: | The front vowels are extremely stable in the speech of older people, but they are the subject of multiple mergers in younger people's speech: | ||
* The most common of those mergers is between /i/ and /e/—both realised as [ɪ] or as | * The most common of those mergers is between /i/ and /e/—both realised as [ɪ] or as either of the two original vowels. For example, one might pronounce 폫 (pyē) anywhere between /pjiː/, /pjɪː/ or /pjeː/. | ||