phonological change
C1508
concept
Phonological change is the systematic alteration of a language’s sound patterns over time, affecting how words are pronounced and sometimes how they are represented in writing.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| phonological rule | 10 |
| phonological change canonical | 3 |
| phonological process | 2 |
| historical phonology | 1 |
| law of consonant shift | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: phonological change
Generated description
Phonological change is the systematic alteration of a language’s sound patterns over time, affecting how words are pronounced and sometimes how they are represented in writing.
Instances (16)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Aitken’s Law | phonological rule |
| Canadian Raising of /aɪ/ and /aʊ/ | phonological process |
| Canadian Shift in short front vowels | phonological process |
| Grimm's law | phonological rule |
| Verner's law | phonological rule |
| Gallo-Romance phonology | historical phonology |
| Sievers' law | phonological rule |
| Winter's law | phonological rule |
| Brugmann's law | phonological rule |
| Szemerényi's law | phonological rule |
| Osthoff's law | phonological rule |
| Sturtevant’s Law | phonological rule |
| Scottish Vowel Length Rule | phonological rule |
| Great Vowel Shift (early phase) | — |
| Great Vowel Shift (late phase) | — |
| High German consonant shift | — |