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单词 Verner's Law
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Verner's Law

/ˈvɛːnəz / /ˈvəːnəz/
noun Linguistics
The observation that voiceless fricatives in Germanic predicted by Grimm’s Law became voiced if the preceding syllable in the corresponding Indo-European word was unstressed.Verner published his results in 1875, and the patterns he described came to be known as Verner's Law....
  • Similarly, Grimm's Law, Verner's Law, and Grassman's Law are transformed into SpecGram's Law.
  • The Danish scholar Carl Verner thus corrected the major deficiency of Grimm's Law by introducing a further sound shift Law, since called Verner's Law.

Origin

Late 19th century: named after Karl A. Verner (1846–96), Danish philologist.

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