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Meaning of "sound shift" in the English dictionary

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sound shift


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOUND SHIFT

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adverb
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determiner
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Sound shift is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SOUND SHIFT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sound change

Sound change includes any processes of language change that affect pronunciation or sound system structures. Sound change can consist of the replacement of one speech sound by another, the complete loss of the affected sound, or even the introduction of a new sound in a place where there previously was none. Sound changes can be environmentally conditioned, meaning that the change in question only occurs in a defined sound environment, whereas in other environments the same speech sound is not affected by the change. The term "sound change" refers to diachronic changes, or changes in a language's underlying sound system over time; "alternation", on the other hand, refers to surface changes that happen synchronically and do not change the language's underlying system. However, since "sound change" can refer to the historical introduction of an alternation, the label is inherently imprecise and often must be clarified as referring to phonetic change or restructuring. Sound change is usually assumed to be regular, which means that it is expected to apply mechanically whenever its structural conditions are met, irrespective of any non-phonological factors.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOUND SHIFT

sound engineer · sound file · sound head · sound hole · sound law · sound library · sound line · sound mixer · Sound of Mull · sound off · sound out · sound pollution · sound ranging · sound recordist · sound spectrogram · sound spectrograph · sound stage · sound system · sound truck · sound wave

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOUND SHIFT

back shift · blueshift · day shift · Doppler shift · downshift · frameshift · gearshift · graveyard shift · Great Vowel Shift · Lamb shift · makeshift · night shift · paradigm shift · redshift · shift · split shift · stick shift · swing shift · unshift · upshift · vowel shift

Synonyms and antonyms of sound shift in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sound shift» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of sound shift to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sound shift from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sound shift» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

声音转变
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

cambio de sonido
570 millions of speakers
en

English

sound shift
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

ध्वनि पारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تحول الصوت
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

звук сдвиг
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

mudança de som
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

শব্দ শিফট
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

mutation consonantique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Peralihan bunyi
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Lautverschiebung
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

音シフト
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

사운드 변화
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Swara shift
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thay đổi âm thanh
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

ஒலி மாற்றம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

ध्वनी शिफ्ट
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Ses kayması
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

spostamento del suono
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

przesunięcie dźwięku
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

звук зрушення
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

schimbare de sunet
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ήχου μετατόπιση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

klank verskuiwing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ljud skift
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lyd skift
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOUND SHIFT»

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The Origins of the German Language - The First and Second ...
Introduction Due to the fact that the sound shifts belong to the most important sound change events, which contributed to the origin of many European and particularly the German language, and furthermore also created phonologically ...
Alexandra Orth, 2011
2
The Germanic Languages
Consonants The most remarkable feature of Old High German is the so-called second sound shift. It still is uncertain whether or not this sound shift started in the south (in the Alemannic and Bavarian dialects) and subsequently spread to the ...
Ekkehard Konig, Johan van der Auwera, 2013
3
The Origins and Development of the English Language
The Indo—European stops bh, dh, gh; p, t, k; b, d, g were all changed in what is called the First Sound Shift or Grimm's Law (sometimes referred to as Rask's- Grimm's rule). These changes were gradual, extending over long periods of time, but ...
John Algeo, Carmen Butcher, 2013
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Introduction to English Linguistics
voiceless plosives in today's language are either those that survived the sound shift (because the shift in fact did not uniformly affect all voiceless plosives in all positions in all words), or they were re-introduced with words that were borrowed  ...
Ingo Plag, 2007
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German : Biography of a Language: Biography of a Language
Latin Words that Entered German before the Second Sound Shift Latin Old High German (ca. 500–1050) Modern German planta 'plant' pflanzaa,b Pflanzea,b campus 'field' kampfa Kampfa 'battle' pilum 'arrow' pfîla Pfeila piper 'pepper' ...
Ruth H. Sanders Professor of German Miami University of Ohio, 2010
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Language History, Language Change, and Language ...
Such an approach will provide a much more informative account of the complex spread pattern of the Old High German sound shift; see Map 4 (which ignores Langobardian, a dialect that soon gave way to varieties of Romance). Map 4 ...
Hans Henrich Hock, Brian D. Joseph, 2009
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Reevaluating Diglossia: Data from Low German
2.4.4 The Second Sound Shift The most important linguistic feature for the emergence of Platt was the so-called Second or High-German Sound Shift ( zweite or hochdeutsche Lautverschiebung). This sound shift, which occurred about 1000 ...
Heiko Wiggers, 2006
8
Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology
The difference is only quantitative, manifesting itself in the different "distributioinal power" of such transformations. A diachronic phonemic transformation of the sound-shift or Laut- verschiebung type has a much wider range of distribution than ...
Jacek Fisiak, 1997
9
Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Much controversy surrounds the dating of the Germanic sound shift; in any case, it is plausible to posit its beginning around 1200-1000 bc and its completion, as evidenced by Celtic loan words, around 500-300 bc. Similarly controversial are ...
Hadumod Bussmann, Kerstin Kazzazi, Gregory Trauth, 2006
10
Our Forefathers
to the Hercynian districts of modern South Germany', and thus came within the sphere of influence of the Gothonic nations, furnishes an approximate terminus a quo; hence originates O.H.G. Walhun which shows the effect of the Sound Shift.
Gudmund Schutte, 2013

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOUND SHIFT»

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Sound Waves: Pop music marked by only three revolutions in the …
They analyzed more than 17,000 songs from the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and found cultural and sound shifts in three years: 1964, 1983, and 1991. The study ... «Vanyaland, May 15»
2
Tracing languages back to their earliest common ancestor through …
In English, the words father and foot took on an initial f sound, but in Latin ... of this sound difference strongly supports the hypothesis that a regular sound shift ... «Phys.Org, Feb 15»
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