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sound change
noun
Any process of language change that affects pronunciation (phonetic change) or sound system structures (phonological change), manifested as a replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature) by another, as the complete loss of the affected sound, or by the introduction of a new sound in a place where there previously was none.
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Many approaches to sound change attempt to derive common patterns of sound change from universal pressures, such as physiological and psychoacoustic constraints on speech.
So far these principles have been applied principally to sound change.
They also wish to construct, if feasible, some general theory of sound change.
In Classical Latin, before the sound change occurred, all c sounds were hard.
Not all sound change is to be accounted for in terms of syntagmatic conditioning.
Sound change is not necessarily phonological; it may be merely phonetic (see above Structural linguistics: Phonology).
Formation of the present indicative: the competing forces of sound change and analogical adjustment.
I think if I had to just write about sound change, I wouldn't be liking it.
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"When the sound changes, you've got to know that the sound's changing," Love says.
His sound changes the drama.
But then the sound changed.
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