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first palatalization
i mutation
high german consonant shift
phonetic
cheshirization
merger
cowgill's law
psilosis
cacuminalization
process
depharyngealization
pronunciation
anglo frisian brightening
lengthening
phonological
betacism
sound law
centumization
debuccalization
assimilation
fortition
assibilation
grimm's law
postalveolarization
semi tatsama
szemerényi's law
second palatalization
metaphony
Noun
Definition: Any process of language change that affects pronunciation (phonetic change) or sound system structures (phonological change), manifested as a replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature) by another, as the complete loss of the affected sound, or by the introduction of a new sound in a place where there previously was none.