Re: sound change
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 7, 2001, 2:27 |
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In a message dated 5/6/01 7:14:34 PM, nsampat@IX.NETCOM.COM writes:
<< I was wondering, are words used often more or less prone to sound change?
Is there a safe generalization for this, or is the tendency radically
different for different situations?
Assuming the second is true, is there likely to be a set of rules that will
determine the proneness-to-change of a given word, given sufficient
information? >>
I vote for often-used words being more prone to sound change. It
certainly explains the irregular German, Spanish and English verbs and some
of the irregular root changes in Arabic. Anyhow, it's just what I've heard
and what I've seen and I ain't seen and heard much as of yet.
-David
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