English Dictionary

chain shift

名詞

(linguistics, phonology) A phonological modification of a vowel system in which a change in a particular vowel causes other adjacent vowels to also change in order to avoid vowel mergers.

日本語の意味

（音韻論）ある母音が変化すると、隣接する他の母音も連鎖的に変化し、母音の融合を避けるための音韻体系の変化

Many historical linguists describe the Great Vowel Shift as a chain shift in which the movement of one vowel set off a cascade of changes to prevent vowel mergers.

多くの歴史言語学者は、グレート・ヴァウエル・シフトを、ある母音の変化が合流を避けるために他の母音の連鎖変化を引き起こした現象として説明する。

意味（1）

(linguistics, phonology) A phonological modification of a vowel system in which a change in a particular vowel causes other adjacent vowels to also change in order to avoid vowel 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 front vowels.

chain shifts （ plural ）