Stang's law
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Stang's law is a phonological rule in Indo-European linguistics that refines and extends Szemerényi's law by describing specific conditions under which final consonants are lost and preceding vowels are lengthened.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stang's law canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21139460 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stang's law Context triple: [Szemerényi's law, relatedTo, Stang's law]
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A.
Osthoff's law
Osthoff's law is a sound change in Indo-European linguistics describing the shortening of long vowels before resonant consonants followed by another consonant.
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B.
Sievers' law
Sievers' law is a historical phonological rule in Indo-European linguistics that explains the alternation between consonantal and vocalic forms of certain sounds (notably *y and *w) depending on the weight of the preceding syllable.
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C.
Lusser's law
Lusser's law is a reliability engineering principle that states the overall reliability of a system is the product of the reliabilities of its individual components, highlighting how system reliability decreases as more components are added in series.
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D.
Kluge's law
Kluge's law is a proposed sound law in Proto-Germanic historical linguistics that explains the development of certain geminate consonants from earlier consonant clusters.
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E.
Brugmann's law
Brugmann's law is a sound law in Indo-European linguistics that explains how certain Proto-Indo-European vowels developed specifically in the Indo-Iranian branch.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stang's law Target entity description: Stang's law is a phonological rule in Indo-European linguistics that refines and extends Szemerényi's law by describing specific conditions under which final consonants are lost and preceding vowels are lengthened.
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A.
Osthoff's law
Osthoff's law is a sound change in Indo-European linguistics describing the shortening of long vowels before resonant consonants followed by another consonant.
-
B.
Sievers' law
Sievers' law is a historical phonological rule in Indo-European linguistics that explains the alternation between consonantal and vocalic forms of certain sounds (notably *y and *w) depending on the weight of the preceding syllable.
-
C.
Lusser's law
Lusser's law is a reliability engineering principle that states the overall reliability of a system is the product of the reliabilities of its individual components, highlighting how system reliability decreases as more components are added in series.
-
D.
Kluge's law
Kluge's law is a proposed sound law in Proto-Germanic historical linguistics that explains the development of certain geminate consonants from earlier consonant clusters.
-
E.
Brugmann's law
Brugmann's law is a sound law in Indo-European linguistics that explains how certain Proto-Indo-European vowels developed specifically in the Indo-Iranian branch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.