History of english review questions and answers 2016
exception to the first sound shift) in Kuhn's Journal of Comparative Linguistic Research in 1876,
but he had presented his theory already on 1 May, 1875 in a comprehensive personal letter to his
friend and mentor, Vilhelm Thomsen.
It was received with great enthusiasm by the young generation of comparative philologists, the so-
called Junggrammatiker, because it was an important argument in favour of
theNeogrammarian dogma that the sound laws were without exceptions ("die Ausnahmslosigkeit
der Lautgesetze").
BREAKING IN OLD ENGLISH
Vowel breaking is a sound change whereby a single vowel changes to become a diphthong in
specific environments. The resulting sound preserves the original vowel, which is either preceded or
followed by a glide. This process is manifested in a variety of Germanic languages and is
characteristic of Old English.
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