sound change
English
Noun
sound change (plural sound changes)
- (phonology) Any process of language change that affects pronunciation (phonetic change) or sound system structures (phonological change), manifested as a replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature) by another, as the complete loss of the affected sound, or by the introduction of a new sound in a place where there previously was none.
Translations
language change that affects pronunciation
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See also
Further reading
sound change on Wikipedia.Wikipedia