{"id":2834,"date":"2011-09-17T13:03:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T12:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2834"},"modified":"2012-07-02T15:01:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T14:01:43","slug":"verners-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2834","title":{"rendered":":Verner&#8217;s law:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered in 1876 by Karl Verner, the law deals with exceptions to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2827\">Grimm&#8217;s law<\/a>.  A number of words which Grimm&#8217;s law predicts should have <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=527\">voiceless <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=557\">fricatives <\/a>in Germanic languages, actually have <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=595\">voiced <\/a>ones.  For examples, the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3397\">intervocalic <\/a>fricative in English <em>father<\/em>.  Verner noticed that all the exceptions were intervocalic and that moreover they were preceded by an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1542\">unstressed <\/a>vowel in Proto-Indo-European.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered in 1876 by Karl Verner, the law deals with exceptions to Grimm&#8217;s law. A number of words which Grimm&#8217;s law predicts should have voiceless fricatives in Germanic languages, actually have voiced ones. For examples, the intervocalic fricative in English &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2834\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":221,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2834"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2834\/revisions\/5662"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}