Meillet's law
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Meillet's law is a sound law in historical linguistics that describes a specific pattern of accentual change in the evolution of Balto-Slavic languages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Meillet's law canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21139379 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Meillet's law Context triple: [Winter's law, relatedTo, Meillet's law]
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A.
Verner's law
Verner's law is a historical linguistic principle explaining a systematic set of consonant alternations in the Germanic languages that refined and expanded upon Grimm's law.
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B.
Szemerényi's law
Szemerényi's law is a sound law in Proto-Indo-European linguistics that explains the loss of certain final consonants with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel.
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C.
Grimm's law
Grimm's law is a fundamental linguistic principle describing the systematic consonant shifts that distinguish the Germanic languages from other Indo-European branches.
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D.
Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws
The Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws is a linguistic principle asserting that phonetic changes in a language occur regularly and without exceptions under the same conditions, forming the basis for systematic historical-comparative linguistics.
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E.
Grassmann's law
Grassmann's law is a sound change rule in Indo-European linguistics describing how an aspirated consonant loses its aspiration when another aspirated consonant follows later in the same word.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Meillet's law Target entity description: Meillet's law is a sound law in historical linguistics that describes a specific pattern of accentual change in the evolution of Balto-Slavic languages.
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A.
Verner's law
Verner's law is a historical linguistic principle explaining a systematic set of consonant alternations in the Germanic languages that refined and expanded upon Grimm's law.
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B.
Szemerényi's law
Szemerényi's law is a sound law in Proto-Indo-European linguistics that explains the loss of certain final consonants with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel.
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C.
Grimm's law
Grimm's law is a fundamental linguistic principle describing the systematic consonant shifts that distinguish the Germanic languages from other Indo-European branches.
-
D.
Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws
The Neogrammarian hypothesis of sound laws is a linguistic principle asserting that phonetic changes in a language occur regularly and without exceptions under the same conditions, forming the basis for systematic historical-comparative linguistics.
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E.
Grassmann's law
Grassmann's law is a sound change rule in Indo-European linguistics describing how an aspirated consonant loses its aspiration when another aspirated consonant follows later in the same word.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.