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Second Germanic Consonant Shift : Phonetics and Phonology Terms
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n. A related series of sound changes affecting obstruents which applied to High German but not to other Germanic languages. Briefly, /p/ → /pf/ or /f/ (English plum, German Pflaume; apple, Apfel; deep, tief); /t/ → /ts/ or /s/ (ten, zehn;...
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First Germanic Consonant Shift : Phonetics and Phonology Terms
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n. (also Grimm’s Law) The elaborate set of sound changes which affected all the Proto-Indo-European plosives in Proto-Germanic, or the resulting correspondences between Germanic and other IE languages. Using the traditional view of PIE, and...
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High German consonant shift Information
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In historical linguistics, the High German consonant shift or second Germanic consonant shift was a phonological development (sound change) which took place in the southern parts of the West Germanic dialect continuum in several phases, probably...


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