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Definition of sound shift in English: sound shiftnoun Linguistics A systematic change in the pronunciation of a set of speech sounds as a language evolves. Example sentencesExamples - Philologists have referred to them as P-Celtic in contrast to Goidelic as Q-Celtic, on the basis of a sound shift of q to p which split an earlier tongue known as Common Celtic.
- Such sound shifts in comparative linguistics parallel, almost uncannily, the slow march of genetic mutations as offspring populations gradually separate from a parent stock.
- Crimean Gothic had undergone the same ‘jj’ to- ‘d' sound shift attested by many Visigothic words.
- The first sound shift, affecting both English and German, was from the early phonetic positions documented in the ancient, or classical, Indo-European languages (Sanskrit, Greek, Latin) to those still evident in the Low German languages, including English.
- Rask had seen something no one else had noticed: between some Germanic streams of language and the others a regular sound-shift had occurred transforming the sounds of B, D, and G into those of P, T, and K.
Definition of sound shift in US English: sound shiftnounˈsound ˌSHiftˈsaʊnd ˌʃɪft Linguistics A systematic change in the pronunciation of a set of speech sounds as a language evolves. Example sentencesExamples - Such sound shifts in comparative linguistics parallel, almost uncannily, the slow march of genetic mutations as offspring populations gradually separate from a parent stock.
- Rask had seen something no one else had noticed: between some Germanic streams of language and the others a regular sound-shift had occurred transforming the sounds of B, D, and G into those of P, T, and K.
- Philologists have referred to them as P-Celtic in contrast to Goidelic as Q-Celtic, on the basis of a sound shift of q to p which split an earlier tongue known as Common Celtic.
- The first sound shift, affecting both English and German, was from the early phonetic positions documented in the ancient, or classical, Indo-European languages (Sanskrit, Greek, Latin) to those still evident in the Low German languages, including English.
- Crimean Gothic had undergone the same ‘jj’ to- ‘d' sound shift attested by many Visigothic words.
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