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Common terms and phrasesadpositions allophonic alternation analogical change articulation aspiration assimilation attested basic borrowing clause clitic cluster consonant contrast corresponding dental developments devoicing dialects dissimilation distinction earlier early effect Engl environment evidence examples fact final final devoicing forms four-part analogy French fricatives grammar Greek Grimm's Law Hindi historical linguistics Indo-Aryan Indo-European Indo-European languages inflectional innovations isoglosses Kurylowicz's labial languages Latin lexical items linguistic change loss medial Modern Moreover morphemes morphological morphophonemic motivated nasal native neogrammarians Note noun obstruent Old English Old High German onomatopoeia palatalization passive pattern PGmc phonetic phonological pidgins plural possible pronoun pronunciation Proto-Indo-European reconstruction regular reinterpreted relationship relative result rule Sanskrit segments semantic shift similar Slavic sonorant sound change speakers structures suffix syllable synchronic syntactic change tend tendency tion velar verb Verner's Law vocabulary voiced voiceless stops vowels word-final words Bibliographic information |