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sound shift

noun

sound shift

noun

Etymology Likely a calque of German Lautverschiebung.

1

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences a regular sound change, especially when several phonemes are synchronously affected in analogous ways, and/or when there are several interlinked phases

  • The Great Vowel Shift was the main sound shift shaping modern English.

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.