historical sound change

C1509
concept

Historical sound change is the systematic alteration of speech sounds in a language over time, resulting in predictable shifts in pronunciation patterns across generations.

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All labels observed (14)

Label Occurrences
sound change 10
vowel shift 4
historical linguistic phenomenon 3

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: historical sound change
Generated description
Historical sound change is the systematic alteration of speech sounds in a language over time, resulting in predictable shifts in pronunciation patterns across generations.

Instances (20)

Instance Via concept surface
Canaanite shift sound change
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law sound change
Canadian Raising of /aɪ/ and /aʊ/ sound change
Canadian Shift in short front vowels vowel shift
Grimm's law historical linguistics concept
Verner's law historical linguistic principle
Grassmann's law phonological law
Sievers' law historical linguistics concept
Winter's law Balto-Slavic sound law
Brugmann's law historical linguistics concept
Szemerényi's law Proto-Indo-European sound law
Osthoff's law —
Great Vowel Shift sound change
Great Vowel Shift (early phase) sound change
Eastern Iranian sound changes set of phonological developments
Great Vowel Shift (late phase) —
Canadian Shift vowel shift
Canadian Raising
surface form: Canadian raising
sound change
Northern Cities Shift vowel shift
High German consonant shift sound change