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sound shift
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English
Etymology
Likely a calque of German Lautverschiebung.
Noun
sound shift (plural sound shifts)
- (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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