📚 noun • entry_id 61427
chain shift
Meanings (ES + gloss)
conmutación catenaria • transmudación tipo cadena • transmudamiento en cadena
A phonological modification of a vowel system or sometimes consonant system in which a change in a particular vowel or consonant causes other adjacent vowels or consonants to also change in order to avoid phonemic mergers.
Many non-Antipodeans cannot readily distinguish Australian and New Zealand English, because the phonologies basically overlap with the exception of an upwards chain shift in the fr…
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