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sound shifts

sound shifts is the plural of sound shift.

Meaning of sound shift

Noun

sound shift (countable and uncountable, plural sound shifts)

  1. a regular sound change, especially when several phonemes are synchronously affected in analogous ways, and/or when there are several interlinked phases
    • The Great Vowel Shift was the main sound shift shaping modern English.

Questions about sound shifts

What is sound shifts the plural of?
Sound shifts is the plural of sound shift.

Words near sound shifts in the dictionary

  1. sound posts
  2. sound recording
  3. sound shadow
  4. sound shadows
  5. sound shift
  6. sound shifts
  7. sound stage
  8. sound stages
  9. sound symbolism
  10. sound symbolisms
  11. sound system

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