Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation

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?