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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2659989, member: 83956&quot;]...and here&#039;s the answer key. This exercise does a pretty good job of prompting students to generate the first two prongs of Grimm&#039;s Law. Learning by doing. Demonstrating the third prong is not so easy.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. IE voiceless stops became Germanic voiceless fricatives.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ex. [p] &gt; [f]</p><p>2. IE voiced stops became Germanic voiceless stops.&nbsp; Ex. [d] &gt; [t]</p><p>3. IE voiced aspirated stops became Germanic voiced stops.&nbsp; Ex. [gh] &gt; [g]</p><p><br /></p><p>I once asked a colleague why we don&#039;t have a good word pair to illustrate #3. His response:</p><p><br /></p><p>“The problem, of course, is that IE voiced aspirated stops really lost their aspiration in Latin and Greek, too, just like in German (or they lost the stop and kept the aspiration, as in hortus from *gher-).&nbsp; So it’s going to be very difficult to find a language that retained the voiced aspirated stop AND loaned a word to English that you can pair up with a Germanic word from the same root, except for loans directly from Hindi:</p><p><br /></p><p>Bhang: Bong</p><p>Dharma: Dharma</p><p>Dinghy : Dinghy</p><p><br /></p><p>With the first, they can actually see the difference, but with all three, you’ll just have to assure students that the &lt;h&gt; is actually aspirated in the Hindi but not in the English.”</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]589906[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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