This concept states that voiceless stops change to voiceless fricatives, voiced stops become voiceless and voiced aspirated stops become voiced fricatives which in turn usually become voiced stops.
Partially refuted in a letter to Vilhelm Thomsen, this phenomenon was independently discovered by Friedrich Schlegel and the Dane Rasmus Rask. This concept states that voiceless stops change to voiceless fricatives, voiced stops become voiceless and voiced aspirated stops become voiced fricatives which in turn usually become voiced stops. Sometimes contradicted by Verner's Law, it describes Proto- Indo-European sound shifts into Proto-Germanic. For 10 points, name this law of historical linguistics whose namesake collected fairy tales with his brother Wilhelm.
Partially refuted in a letter to Vilhelm Thomsen, this phenomenon was independently discovered by Friedrich Schlegel and the Dane Rasmus Rask.
{Grimm's} Law