单词 | sound-law |
释义 | > as lemmassound-law sound-law n. [translating German lautgesetz] Philology a rule stating the regular occurrence of a phonetic change in the history of a language or language family. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [noun] > rule or law sound-law1874 1874 H. Bendall tr. A. Schleicher Compar. Gram. 12 Vowel sound-laws (i.e. influence of vowels and consonants on vowels) were not existent in the original Indo-European language. 1911 L. Bloomfield in Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 10 629 Synonymous words might be collected to prove almost any desired sound-law. 1974 R. Quirk Linguist & Eng. Lang. i. 3 There are good historical reasons..for our firmly associating it [sc. ‘language’] with..‘sound-laws’. < as lemmas |
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