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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 changes in the same way without exception. Such changes have a physiological basis and occur under the same conditions, e.g. the Germanic sound shift (
Grimm’s law; also umlaut, diphthongization). In those cases in which exceptions are ascertained in spite of the law, analogy and language mixing, i.e. adoptions from other varieties of languages ( sound substitution) are considered to be at cause.
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analogy, Bartholomae’s Law, Grassmann’s Law, Grimm’s Law, Neogrammarians, Sievers’ Law, sound change, Thurneysen’s Law, Verner’s Law
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