Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In linguistics, a surface filter is type of sound change that does not operate on a single set of sounds at a particular point in time, but continues to operate over a longer period. Surface filters normally affect any phonetic combination that is not permitted according to the language's phonetic rules, and therefore exist as a way to preserve the phonotactics of that language. They are also often a source of complementary distribution between certain sets of sounds.A trivial example of a surface filter is the replacement of sounds that are foreign to the language with sounds that are native to the language they are borrowed into. For example, a language that has no front rounded vowels may replace such vowels with either front unrounded or back rounded vowels, whenever it borrows a word containing such a vowel. Strictly speaking this is not a surface filter, since it is merely the way in which the phonetics of one language are matched to that of another. But it does illustrate the importance of surface filters in preserving the phonological structure of words within the language. Usually, the term \"surface filter\" applies only to rules that affect natively constructed words as well as borrowings."@en }
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- Surface_filter abstract "In linguistics, a surface filter is type of sound change that does not operate on a single set of sounds at a particular point in time, but continues to operate over a longer period. Surface filters normally affect any phonetic combination that is not permitted according to the language's phonetic rules, and therefore exist as a way to preserve the phonotactics of that language. They are also often a source of complementary distribution between certain sets of sounds.A trivial example of a surface filter is the replacement of sounds that are foreign to the language with sounds that are native to the language they are borrowed into. For example, a language that has no front rounded vowels may replace such vowels with either front unrounded or back rounded vowels, whenever it borrows a word containing such a vowel. Strictly speaking this is not a surface filter, since it is merely the way in which the phonetics of one language are matched to that of another. But it does illustrate the importance of surface filters in preserving the phonological structure of words within the language. Usually, the term \"surface filter\" applies only to rules that affect natively constructed words as well as borrowings.".