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Shibatani, Masayoshi – Language, 1973
Expanded version of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, December 1970, in Washington, D.C. Work supported by a Grace W. Drake Scholarship, a University of California graduate scholarship, and a National Science Foundation grant to the Phonology Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
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Montgomery, Thomas – Language, 1978
A type of sound symbolism that has influenced the composition of modern Spanish vocabulary is discussed. Rates of lexical retention and loss are attributed to the degree to which verbs fit the developing morphophonemic and semantic patterns. (EJS)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Variation
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Andersen, Henning – Language, 1973
Descriptors: Change Agents, Czech, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics