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sound shift

Definition of sound shift

noun

Linguistics

a systematic change in the pronunciation of a set of speech sounds as a language evolves.

sound shift in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of sound shift in the US English dictionary

Nearby words

sound effect
sound engineer
sound off
sound post
sound pressure
sound shift
sound spectrograph
sound stage
sound symbolism
sound system
sound wave

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