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Verner’S Law : Language and Linguistics
291 words, approx. 1 pages Discovered by the Dane Karl Verner in 1875 (published in 1877), an exception to the Germanic sound shift ( Grimm’s law) that was later designated as a ‘law’ by linguists. Based on comparative studies of Sanskrit and Greek with the...
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Verner’S Law : Phonetics and Phonology Terms
31 words, approx. 1 pages n. An important sound change in ProtoGermanic by which voiceless obstruents were voiced in certain positions, leading, for example, to Old English fadar ‘father’ (cf. Latin pater). Verner...
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1,286 words, approx. 4 pages
 Verner's law, stated by Karl Verner in 1875, describes a historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language whereby voiceless fricatives *f, *þ, *s and *x, when immediately following an unstressed syllable in the same word, underwent voicing and...


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