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Phonological change

In historical linguistics, phonological change is any sound change that alters the distribution of phonemes in a language. In other words, a language develops a new system of oppositions among its phonemes. Old contrasts may disappear, new ones may emerge, or they may simply be rearranged. Sound change may be an impetus for changes in the phonological…

Phonemic differentiation, Phonetic vs. phonological change & Overview

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Phonetic vs. phonological change

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Phonemic differentiation

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Phonological change

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the Great Vowel Shiftinstance ofchain shifts0.80text
My head hurts because the syntactic mechanism needs something explicit to generate the singular suffix on the verbinstance ofIn some theories of syntax it is useful to have an overt marker on a singular noun in a sentence0.80text
theseinstance ofThe former is much more common than the latter.In Latin are many consonant clusters that lose a member or two0.80text
pronouncing pudding /pʌdɪŋ/.Occasionallyinstance ofsometimes resulting in hypercorrections0.80text
speakers of one accent may believe the speakers of another accent to have undergone a mergerinstance ofsometimes resulting in hypercorrections0.80text
when there has really been a chain shiftinstance ofsometimes resulting in hypercorrections0.80text

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