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Sound change

In historical linguistics, a sound change is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature value) by a different one (called phonetic change) or a more general change to the speech sounds that exist (phonological change), such as the merger of two…

Terms for changes in pronunciation, Principles & Formal notation

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Terms for changes in pronunciation

AssimilationApical stopDiachronicallyDissimilationOld Spanish
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Principles

UnstressedSyllablesAdjectivesProsodicRegularized
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Formal notation

Proto-OceanicRotumanEnglishLatinItalian
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Examples of specific sound changes in various languages

Anglo-Frisian nasal spirant lawCanaanite shiftCot-caught mergerDahl's lawGreat Vowel Shift
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Terms for changes in pronunciation

Examples of specific sound changes in various languages

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Sound change

Nodes97
Edges96
Triples110
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.020619
Components1

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Sound change

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related to Terms for changes in pronunciation · 67
Sound change → All, American, Apocope, As, Assimilation, Classical Latin, Conditioned, Dissimilation, Elision, English, Epenthesis, Example, Examples, For, Fortition, Frank's, French, Grassmann's Law, Greek, Haplology
related to References · 37
Sound change → An Introduction, Andrew, Anttila, Berlin, BlackwellHock, Campbell, Comparative Linguistics, Hale, Hans Henrich, Historical, Historical Linguistics, ISBN, John Benjamins, Labial Instability, Language History, Language Science Press, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Lyle
related to Principles · 5
Sound change → However, If, Neogrammarian, Sound, The
is a · 1
Sound change → change in the pronunciation of a language

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sound change english changes example one sounds historical examples regular phonological latin word two like words consonant linguistics affect often

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Sound changeis achange in the pronunciation of a language0.90text
Sound changerelated to PrinciplesThe0.60section
Sound changerelated to PrinciplesNeogrammarian0.60section
Sound changerelated to PrinciplesHowever0.60section
Sound changerelated to PrinciplesSound0.60section
Sound changerelated to PrinciplesIf0.60section
Sound changerelated to ReferencesAnttila0.60section
Sound changerelated to ReferencesRaimo0.60section
Sound changerelated to ReferencesHistorical0.60section
Sound changerelated to ReferencesComparative Linguistics0.60section
Sound changerelated to ReferencesJohn Benjamins0.60section
Sound changerelated to ReferencesCampbell0.60section

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