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Mourin, Louis – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1978
Demonstrates the regularity of the structure of the present indicative in modern French. (AM)
Descriptors: French, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages), Morphophonemics
Peer reviewedPicard, 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
