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The Language Families

How these connect

The regularity of sound change and what it relates to. Every line is an evidence-backed relation, and the arrangement is fixed — this address draws this picture, today and next year.

instance_of — Grimm's Law is the first sound change to be stated as a system of series rather than as a collection of individual correspondences.depends_on — The comparative method can only extract correspondences if sound change applies to every word in the same environment rather than word by word.The comparative methodThe comparative methodGrimm's Law — the first Germanic sound shiftGrimm's Law — the first G…The regularity of sound changeThe regularity of sound c…
3 drawn · 10 reachable and not drawn · positions derived from object ids, never from a simulation
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Every relation drawn, in words2
  1. Grimm's Law — the first Germanic sound shift · instance_of · The regularity of sound change

    Grimm's Law is the first sound change to be stated as a system of series rather than as a collection of individual correspondences.

  2. The comparative method · depends_on · The regularity of sound change

    The comparative method can only extract correspondences if sound change applies to every word in the same environment rather than word by word.