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consonant shift: Meaning and Definition of
con'sonant shift"
Pronunciation: [key]
— Ling. Ling.
- a set of changes that take place in the articulation of one or more consonant phonemes between an earlier and a later stage of a language. Cf. first consonant shift, second consonant shift.
