Historical changes in the sound system of a language. Different types of sound change can be distinguished (see Bartsch and Vennemann 1982). (a) Phonetically motivated changes: a type of change related to the trend towards simplicity in the...

Central notion of the historical linguistic description of the Neogrammarians. The use of this term is based on the assumption that—in analogy to natural scientific regularities—certain sounds of a given language undergo certain phonetic...

n. (also P-rule) In the broadest sense, any rule which, in some analysis, is posited as involved in deriving a pronunciation from an underlying phonological representation. In this conception, both rules appealing to morphological and lexical...

In generative phonology, type of transforma-tional rule ( transformation) that transfers the phonological representation of sentences into the phonetic transcription. Phonological rules are in the form of: A→B/X_____Y, i.e. ‘replace segment...

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