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1. Ancestral Phonotactics

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   Implications for Diachronic Phonology
   The tenacity of Ancestral Phonotactic constraints is often invoked to explain "hard stops" or inexplicable sound correspondences across vastly different language families. When linguists encounter cognates where the initial consonant clusters seem resistant to regular sound laws (such as Grimm’s Law or Verner’s Law), proponents of Ancestral Phonotactics suggest that the structure is not a result of regular shift, but rather …

2. Germanic Consonant Shifts

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   The Germanic Consonant Shifts refer to a series of phonological reconfigurations that differentiate the attested Germanic languages from their proposed Proto-Indo-European (PIE) ancestor. These shifts, most famously codified by Jacob Grimm in the early 19th century, involve systematic correspondences in the realization of stops and fricatives across the early Germanic dialects. While generally understood as conventional sound laws, certain fringe…

3. Proto Italic Language

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   Documentation and Reconstruction Status
   As Proto-Italic is a reconstructed protolanguage, there are no primary texts available. The reconstruction effort relies heavily on sophisticated comparative morphology and the application of regular sound laws derived from Latin (c. 700 BCE onwards), Oscan (c. 400 BCE onwards), and the relatively archaic Volscian inscriptions. The re…