Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:18:40 -0700 Charles <catty@...> writes:
>John Cowan wrote:
>> Sound-change does seem to happen in a bursty fashion.  There's
>> one going on now in the U.S. --- the "Inner Cities Drag-Chain
>> Vowel Shift".  I suspect that in a century or so it will have
>> taken over the whole U.S. and maybe other Englishes as well.
>But there are two shifts going on, in opposite directions.
>Hopefully, they will cancel out. Or maybe return to the original?
Could you describe both shifts, and where they're happening?
thanks,


-Stephen (Steg), who discovered this weekend that babies like bilabial
trills.
 ("bbbbbbbbbbb, Liyura!")

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