Phonetic Prosses in the Context of English and German Development

Abstract

The Master’s research paper is devoted to the study of the modification of sounds in the process of the Germanic language’s (English and German) development.
Besides, the phonetic processes and their reconstruction are widely considered in the course of the work. Considerable attention is addressed to the phenomena inherent in the phonetic system, namely, assimilation, elision, classification of vowel and consonant phonemes, aspiration, dissimilation.
The empiric material of the research work includes German and English words and sounds selected by the method of continuous sampling from English and German literature.