Winter's law
E520889
Winter's law is a sound law in Balto-Slavic historical linguistics that explains the lengthening of short vowels before voiced stops in Proto-Balto-Slavic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Winter's law canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5460638 — 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: Winter's law Context triple: [Indo-European phonology, studies, Winter's law]
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A.
Aitken’s Law
Aitken’s Law is a phonological rule in Scots and Scottish English that governs when vowels are pronounced long or short depending on their phonetic and morphological environment.
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B.
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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C.
Law of the Maximum
The Law of the Maximum was a French Revolutionary price-control measure that fixed maximum prices on essential goods to curb inflation and protect the urban poor.
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D.
Wirth’s law
Wirth’s law is the observation that software tends to become slower more quickly than hardware becomes faster, often negating the benefits of improved computing performance.
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E.
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.
- 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: Winter's law Target entity description: Winter's law is a sound law in Balto-Slavic historical linguistics that explains the lengthening of short vowels before voiced stops in Proto-Balto-Slavic.
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A.
Aitken’s Law
Aitken’s Law is a phonological rule in Scots and Scottish English that governs when vowels are pronounced long or short depending on their phonetic and morphological environment.
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B.
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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C.
Law of the Maximum
The Law of the Maximum was a French Revolutionary price-control measure that fixed maximum prices on essential goods to curb inflation and protect the urban poor.
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D.
Wirth’s law
Wirth’s law is the observation that software tends to become slower more quickly than hardware becomes faster, often negating the benefits of improved computing performance.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Balto-Slavic sound law
ⓘ
phonological rule ⓘ sound law ⓘ |
| affects |
Proto-Balto-Slavic prosodic system
ⓘ
Proto-Balto-Slavic vowel quantity ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Proto-Balto-Slavic
ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Balto-Slavic language
|
| chronology | Proto-Balto-Slavic period ⓘ |
| concerns |
short vowels
ⓘ
vowel lengthening ⓘ |
| controversy | degree of acceptance among linguists ⓘ |
| environment |
before voiced stops
ⓘ
in stressed syllables ⓘ |
| evidenceFrom |
Baltic vowel length patterns
ⓘ
Slavic vowel length patterns ⓘ |
| field | historical linguistics ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Balto-Slavic
ⓘ
linked to:
Balto-Slavic languages
|
| motivation | phonological conditioning ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Werner Winter ⓘ |
| proposedBy | Werner Winter ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| reconstructsStage |
Proto-Balto-Slavic
ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Balto-Slavic language
|
| relatedTo |
Dybo's law
ⓘ
Holtzmann's law ⓘ
linked to:
Sievers' law
Meillet's law ⓘ Saussure's law ⓘ
linked to:
Brugmann's law
|
| relevance |
Baltic languages
ⓘ
Slavic languages ⓘ |
| result | lengthened vowels ⓘ |
| status | hypothesis ⓘ |
| typeOfChange |
compensatory lengthening
ⓘ
segmental change ⓘ |
| usedIn | reconstruction of Proto-Balto-Slavic accentuation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Winter's law Description of subject: Winter's law is a sound law in Balto-Slavic historical linguistics that explains the lengthening of short vowels before voiced stops in Proto-Balto-Slavic.
Referenced by (1)
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