Had I been able to find this on the web, put this simply, this homework might not have taken me as long as it did. Hopefully this will help some overworked linguistics major sometime in the future...if I did it right.
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Original Phoneme |
New Phoneme After Change |
Word Whose Root Exemplifies Original Phoneme |
Word with Morphologically Related Root That Demonstrates Phoneme Change |
|
/p/ |
/f/ |
pedal |
foot |
|
/t/ |
/Ө/ |
maternal |
mother |
|
/k/ |
/h/ |
cornucopia |
horn |
|
/b/ |
/p/ |
turba (Latin: crowd) |
thorp (OE: village) |
|
/d/ |
/t/ |
cardiac |
heart |
|
/g/ |
/k/ |
genuflect |
knee |
|
/f/ |
/b/ |
fragment |
break |
|
/Ө/ |
/d/ |
thyroid |
door |
|
/h/ |
/g/ |
hostel |
guest |
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