Reconstruction Flashcards
What is the sound change associated with when nearby segments become more similar?
Assimilation
What is the sound change of consonant weakening adjacent to sonorants?
Lenition
What is the consonant mutation under the influence of [i] and similar segments?
Palatalization
What is the removal of a segment?
Deletion
What is the insertion of a segment?
Epenthesis
What is the sound change where alveolar sibilants become rhotics?
Rhotacism
What is the sound change that involves nearby segments becoming less similar?
Dissimilation
What is the sound change where segments change places?
Metathesis
When did the Great English Vowel Shift occur?
At the boundary of Middle English and Modern English
What is the series of changes where the input of one change is the output of another?
Chain shift
What are the changes in long vowels after GEVS?
High vowels become diphthongs
Mid vowels become high
Low vowels become mid front
How does the chain shift apply to Grimm’s Law?
Voiceless stops become voiceless fricatives
Voiced stops become voiceless stops
Breathy voiced stops become voiced stops
True or false: If two related languages show evidence of the same sound change, it is suggested that the sound change occurs in their ancestor
True
True or false: Languages that do not show evidence of change are closely related
False
