phonetic law
1phonetic law — Historical Ling. a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm s law or Verner s law. * * * …
2phonetic law — noun : a formula deduced from observed uniformity in the development under given conditions of a sound or combination of sounds within a linguistic area at or during a given time * * * Historical Ling. a statement of some regular pattern of sound …
3sound law — noun a law describing sound changes in the history of a language • Hypernyms: ↑law, ↑natural law • Hyponyms: ↑Grimm s law, ↑Verner s law • Part Holonyms: ↑historical linguistics, ↑ …
4sound law. — See phonetic law. [1870 75] * * * …
5sound law. — See phonetic law. [1870 75] …
6LAPD phonetic alphabet — The LAPD phonetic alphabet is a phonetic alphabet similar to the NATO phonetic alphabet that is used by the LAPD and other local and state law enforcement agencies across the state of California. It is not a phonetic alphabet in the sense in… …
7Cowgill's law — Cowgill s law, named after Indo Europeanist Warren Cowgill, refers to two unrelated sound changes, one occurring in Proto Greek and the other in Proto Germanic. Contents 1 Cowgill s law in Greek 2 Cowgill s law in Germanic 3 Notes …
8Germanic spirant law — In linguistics, the Germanic spirant law or Primärberührung is a specific historical instance of assimilation which occurred at an early stage in the history of the Germanic languages and is regarded by some as being early enough to fall into the …
9Sievers' Law — in Indo European linguistics accounts for the pronunciation of a consonant cluster with a glide before a vowel as it was affected by the phonetics of the preceding syllable. Specifically it refers to the alternation between * iy and * y , and… …
10Verner's law — Ling. the statement by K. Verner of a regularity behind some apparent exceptions in the Germanic languages to Grimm s law, namely, that Proto Germanic voiceless fricatives became voiced when between voiced sounds if the immediately preceding… …
