ABSTRACT
Stress can have a significant diachronic ( synchrony vs diachrony) influence on sound change: cf. the ‘exceptions’ to the Germanic sound shift ( Grimm’s law), elucidated in Verner’s law, which resulted from the ProtoIndo-European free stress. ( also intonation, metrical phonology, phonetics, phonology)
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