• transcription delimiters. A sound change, in historical linguistics, is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement...
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  • historical-linguistic sound change that results in a palatalized articulation of a consonant or, in certain cases, a front vowel. Palatalization involves change in the...
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  • § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonology, fronting is a sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes fronted, advanced or pronounced...
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  • and transcription delimiters. In phonology and phonetics, raising is a sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that...
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    over time does not change). During propagation, waves can be reflected, refracted, or attenuated by the medium. The behavior of sound propagation is generally...
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  • transcription delimiters. In historical linguistics, phonological change is any sound change that alters the distribution of phonemes in a language. In other...
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  • Sound of Change is the fourth studio album by reggae/rock/rap hybrid band the Dirty Heads. The album was released on July 8, 2014. The album debuted at...
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  • linguistics identify three main types of change: systematic change in the pronunciation of phonemes, or sound change; borrowing, in which features of a language...
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  • Change Is a Sound is the debut album by the punk rock band Strike Anywhere, released in 2001. The album's lyrics explore such themes as women's rights...
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  • the associated ruki sound law. Other notable changes include: Grimm's law and Verner's law in Proto-Germanic an independent change similar to Grimm's law...
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  • Rhotacism (/ˈroʊtəsɪzəm/ ROH-tə-siz-əm) or rhotacization is a sound change that converts one consonant (usually a voiced alveolar consonant: /z/, /d/,...
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  • previously". This section presents the sound changes that happened from Latin to Romanian. The order in which the sound changes are listed here is not necessarily...
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  • Semantic change (also semantic shift, semantic progression, semantic development, or semantic drift) is a form of language change regarding the evolution...
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    called the 'proto-language'. A sequence of regular sound changes (along with their underlying sound laws) can then be postulated to explain the correspondences...
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  • consequence of this change, /ei/ > /iː/. The Elder Futhark of the Proto-Norse language still contained different symbols for the two sounds. z-umlaut: /e/...
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  • Assimilation is a sound change in which some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to become more similar to other nearby sounds. A common type...
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  • impediment), difficulty in pronouncing the /r/ sound Rhotacism (sound change), the historical sound change of another sound to /r/ Rhotic (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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  • vowel quality changes within the same syllable, and hiatus, where two vowels are next to each other in different syllables. A vowel sound whose quality...
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    phonemicized a third vowel length system around AD 1300 as a result of the sound change /VsC/ > /VhC/ > /VːC/ (where V is any vowel and C any consonant). This...
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  • Neogrammarian hypothesis of the regularity of sound change. According to the Neogrammarian hypothesis, a diachronic sound change affects simultaneously all words in...
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  • Germanic sound shifts are the phonological developments (sound changes) from the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) to Proto-Germanic, in Proto-Germanic...
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  • after, the articulation of the consonant. There can also be a complete sound change to a palatal or alveolo-palatal consonant. This table summarizes the...
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  • so-called prop vowel at the end of a word, often as a result of the common sound change where vowels at the end of a word are deleted. For example, in the Gallo-Romance...
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    affected sound, or even the introduction of a new sound in a place where there had been none. Sound changes can be conditioned in which case a sound is changed...
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  • *-i- underwent an irregular change of *-k>*-t and *-ŋ >*-n. In Proto-Tibeto-Burman, *-kw and *-ŋw underwent a sound change to become *-k and *-ŋ respectively...
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  • spelling of a variety of Middle English, and generally do not reflect the sound changes that have occurred since the late 15th century (such as the Great Vowel...
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  • [xʲ]. These shifts in primary place of articulation are examples of the sound change of palatalization. Romanian ban, bani ("coin, coins") [ban banʲ] Problems...
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  • vowel. In a broader sense, the term can refer to the loss of any final sound (including consonants) from a word. Academic linguists term the resultant...
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    k, θ, s/) use a more raised vowel sound compared to bride, high, prize, wide, etc. Because of this sound change, the words rider and writer (listen)...
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  • Indo-European languages. Grimm's law was the first discovered systematic sound change, creating historical phonology as a historical linguistics discipline...
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