may also trigger vowel affection and palatization. The vowel inventory of PSNEA *a, *a·, *ą, *ə, *i· (which are equivalent to their Massachusett phonological representation and , respectively) is retained, but PSNEA *o· becomes *uː or . This is reflected by the double-o ligature or the digraph in the colonial-era documents and in the modern orthography implemented by the WLRP. Eliot claimed that the double o ligature was pronounced like English book and mood, both of which were also pronounced before shifting to , but the word book was probably still pronounced closer to than current in Eliot's time, as the effects of the Great Vowel Shift in English were still going on, and may reflect Eliot's use of in his earliest Massachusett writings, whereas the majority use . Eliot also used for what has been reconstructed as , especially word-medial or word-final positions, and or word initially. However, in the modern orthography, is only used for what can be traced back to developments from Proto-Algonquian *o·. Development examples References Algic languages Algonquian languages Eastern Algonquian languages Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands Massachusett language Languages of the United States Wampanoag Native American phonologies