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Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion, PDF eBook

Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion PDF

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change series

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This study of word frequency effects on sound change provides a resolution of the Neogrammarian controversy.

Betty S. Phillips discusses the implications for phonology and historical linguistics of certain types of change affecting the most frequent words first and other types of change affecting the least frequent words first.

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