Re: sound change
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 8, 2001, 17:03 |
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Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
>> In short:
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>> Sound change operates regularly to produce irregularities;
>> Analogy operates irregularly to produce regularities.
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> A really witty definition. Whose?
E.H. Sturtevant, ca. 1945, probably at Yale.
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