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Breen, Walter – 1989
A discussion of the nature and process of phonological changes taking places in languages looks specifically at the merging of allophones and the reorganization of phonemes in response to pressures within the phonological system. The hypotheses of economy and reorganization are used to analyze the process of change within a phonological system.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Variation, Models
