| NOUN | cognition | sound law | a law describing sound changes in the history of a language |
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| Meaning | A law describing sound changes in the history of a language. | |
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| Part of | historical linguistics, diachronic linguistics, diachrony | The study of linguistic change |
| Narrower | Grimm's law | A sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages |
| Verner's law | A qualification of Grimm's law | |
| Broader | law, natural law | A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
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