Transphonologization
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transphonologization-184-8794377
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Transphonologization
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In historical linguistics, transphonologization is a type of sound change whereby a phonemic contrast that used to involve a certain feature X evolves in such a way that the contrast is preserved, yet becomes associated with a different feature Y. For example, a language contrasting two words * vs. * may evolve historically so that final consonants are dropped, yet the modern language preserves the contrast through the nature of the vowel, as in a pair vs.. Such a situation would be described by
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transphonologization
date created:
2006-06-28T13:47:48Z
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2024-09-07T08:31:02Z
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