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Lexical diffusion

Lexical diffusion is the hypothesis that a sound change is an abrupt change that spreads gradually across the words in a language to which it is applicable. It contrasts with the Neogrammarian view that a sound change results from phonetically-conditioned articulatory drift acting uniformly on all applicable words, which implies that sound changes are…

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Lexical diffusion

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related to Further reading · 26
Lexical diffusion → Betty, DM, Douglas, Edited, Hashimoto, ISBN, JSTOR, Language, Lingua, Linguistic Analysis, Mantaro, Monographs, Mouton, Mouton De Gruyter, New York, Palgrave MacMillan, Phillips, Phonological Change, S2CID, The
related to Wang's reformulation · 16
Lexical diffusion → Berkeley, California, Cheng, Chinese, For, Hanyu Fangyin Zihui, However, In, Middle Chinese, Peking University, Similar, Teochew, The DOC, University, Wang, William Wang
related to Evaluation · 6
Lexical diffusion → Examples, It, Labov, Lexical, Regular, The
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Lexical diffusion → hypothesis that a sound change is an abrupt change that spreads gradually across the words in a language to which it is applicable, non-proportional type of analogy similar to leveling

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Lexical diffusionis ahypothesis that a sound change is an abrupt change that spreads gradually across the words in a language to which it is applicable0.90text
Lexical diffusionis anon-proportional type of analogy similar to leveling0.90text
Hermann Paul described regularity as a consequence of the operation of sound change as an imperceptible articulatory drift conditioned by the phonetic environment.Leonard Bloomfield later summarized this viewinstance ofNeogrammarians0.80text
cutinstance ofThis sound change results in two different vowels in words0.80text
putinstance ofThis sound change results in two different vowels in words0.80text
Lexical diffusionrelated to EvaluationLabov0.60section
Lexical diffusionrelated to EvaluationRegular0.60section
Lexical diffusionrelated to EvaluationThe0.60section
Lexical diffusionrelated to EvaluationExamples0.60section
Lexical diffusionrelated to EvaluationLexical0.60section
Lexical diffusionrelated to EvaluationIt0.60section
Lexical diffusionrelated to Further readingPhillips0.60section

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