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Relative chronology of sound changes means

  • A.the occurrence of sound changes in the proto-history
  • B.the occurrence of more than one sound change
  • C.the order in which different sound changes have occurred
  • D.the occurrence of only one sound change

Answer: C

Relative chronology of sound changes means the order in which different sound changes occurred, option C. It tells which change came before which other change, without fixing dates in years. For example, if one change feeds or bleeds another, the relative order explains the surviving forms.

Option A confuses it with the proto-history of a language. Option B only says that more than one change happened, which gives no ordering, and option D, one sound change, cannot be ordered against anything. Absolute chronology, in contrast, gives actual dates.

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