historical sound change

C1509
concept

Historical sound change is the systematic alteration of speech sounds in a language over time, resulting in predictable shifts in pronunciation patterns across generations.

All labels observed (14)

Label Occurrences
sound change 10
vowel shift 4
historical linguistic phenomenon 3

Instances (20)

Instance Via concept surface
Canaanite shift sound change
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law sound change
Canadian Raising of /aɪ/ and /aʊ/ sound change
Canadian Shift in short front vowels vowel shift
Grimm's law historical linguistics concept
Verner's law historical linguistic principle
Grassmann's law phonological law
Sievers' law historical linguistics concept
Winter's law Balto-Slavic sound law
Brugmann's law historical linguistics concept
Szemerényi's law Proto-Indo-European sound law
Osthoff's law
Great Vowel Shift sound change
Great Vowel Shift (early phase) sound change
Eastern Iranian sound changes set of phonological developments
Great Vowel Shift (late phase)
Canadian Shift vowel shift
Canadian Raising
surface form: Canadian raising
sound change
Northern Cities Shift vowel shift
High German consonant shift sound change