DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaphonetic leveling
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaSapir (1921)
TitoloLanguage
Sinonimi 
Rinviisound of language (inglese)
to split (inglese)
word (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

If neither of the two sounds into which an old one 'splits ' is a new sound, it means that there has been a phonetic leveling, that two groups of words , each with a distinct sound or sound combination, have fallen together into one group.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 181