Go to MSN Homeencarta®
Dictionary
Find
in
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Translations
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Click to move up the list of words
sound card
sound effect
sound healing
sound hole
sound mixer
sound off
sound out
sound ranging
sound shift
sound spectrograph
sound stage
sound system
sound therapy
sound truck
sound wave
soundalike
soundboard
Click to move down the list of words
Also available:

World English Dictionary
Dictionnaire Français

sound shift
sound shift (plural sound shifts)


noun 
Definition:
 
regular change in pronunciation: a systematic change over time in the pronunciation of a set of sounds in a language
Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Advertisement
© 2009 Microsoft