sound change
process of language change affecting pronunciation or sound system structure
psilosis
loss of the sound /h/ in the history of the Greek language
monophthongization
vowel sound change
vowel breaking
change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong
chain shift
sound changes affecting each other
flapping
phonetic change of -t- and -d- between vowels in some English dialects
metathesis
the rearranging of sounds or syllables in a word or of words in a sentence in linguistics
iotacism
process of vowel shift in Greek texts
compensatory lengthening
lengthening of vowel sounds in place of a deleted consonant
voicing
phonetic phenomenon
phonological change
phenomenon in phonology
unpacking
phonological process where a segment's features are split into multiple segments
fronting
shift in articulation of a sound from the back of throat or palate to the front
unrounding
phonological process whereby rounded vowels are converted into non-rounded vowels
rhotacism
sound change converting an alveolar consonant to a rhotic consonant
vowel shift
systematic change in the pronunciation of the vowel sounds of a language
sandhi
morphophonological process
dissimilation
linguistic phenomenon where sounds diverge
lenition
consonant sound change
vowel reduction in Slavic languages
sound change in Russian phonology
fusion
sound change where phonological segments with distinctive features blend into a single segment
raising
in phonology, changing the articulation point of a sound to a higher position in the mouth
initial dropping
sound change
phonological history of English high front vowels
sound changes
devoicing
phonetic phenomenon
affrication
term used in phonetics
consonant mutation
type of consonant change depending on context and surrounding words
phonetic shift
sound change
velarised tonic A
phonetic feature