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On the Evaluation of Competing Analyses in Historical Phonology: Naturalness, Minimality, and the Case of the Armenian /erk/.
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Picard, Marc – Language Sciences, 1990
Argues that the most important constraints on any proposed sound change are naturalness and minimality. Examples from Western Romance languages are provided to show how these principles can be applied to the best advantage, and a new solution is proposed to the problem of /erk/ from *DW in Armenian. (27 references) (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Armenian, Diachronic Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Language Variation