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Old English γ-metathesis and generative phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Richard M. Hogg
Richard M. Hogg
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Department of English Language and Medieval Literature, University of Lancaster
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Postal (1968: 300) writes as follows:

Bloomfield in effect noted the incompatibility of phenomena like … metathesis, dissimilation, etc., with the view of sound change as gradual drift in performance. Instead of admitting that these were counterexamples to the view, he simply appealed to terminology and declared that they were not sound change … But, since these types of changes are as systematic, regular, cross-lexical, etc., as other changes, this terminological attempt amounts to nothing more than the naming of a class of exceptions.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , September 1977 , pp. 165 - 175
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