sound shift

English

Etymology

Likely a calque of German Lautverschiebung.

Noun

sound shift (plural sound shifts)

  1. (linguistics) 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.
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