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Help please!! Historical phonetics is the study of how sounds have changed over time. Please give me an example of how speech has changed over time.
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Historical phonetics is the study of how sounds have changed over time. Please give me an example of how speech has changed over time.

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It has changed in many ways. We went from saying just short, simple, sounds to longer, more precise sounds. Also, We have made actual words with syllables.
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