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“Sound Change” is a category for books that investigate how and why the sounds of languages evolve over time, from subtle shifts in pronunciation to sweeping transformations like the Great Vowel Shift. These works draw on historical linguistics, phonetics, and sociolinguistics to explain regular patterns (such as Grimm’s Law), processes like mergers, splits, assimilation, and lenition, and the social forces that spread new pronunciations. The category includes accessible introductions, case studies of specific languages and dialects, methodological guides to the comparative method and acoustic analysis, and popular narratives linking sound change to etymology, spelling quirks, and language families. Across titles, readers learn about drivers such as ease of articulation, perception, language contact, identity, and analogy, and how systematic sound change helps reconstruct linguistic history and illuminate ongoing shifts. Ideal for students, researchers, and curious readers, these books reveal the mechanisms that continually reshape spoken language.

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