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Ordering paradoxes in phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

B. E. Newton
B. E. Newton
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Department of Modern Languages, Simon Fraser University, Canada
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1. It may be claimed that current views regarding the nature of sound change fall into two broad categories: the more traditional attitude would treat an individual sound change as a complex trend or process taking perhaps several generations to establish itself, and then retaining its activity over a long period of time; whence the characteristic concern of classical historical linguistics with the establishment of absolute and relative termini post and ante quern, i More recently adherents of the generative–transformational school have interpreted sound changes as readjustments in the system of phonological rules; thus Postal (1968: 270) claims:

‘What really changes is not sounds but grammars. And grammars are abstract objects – sets of rules represented in human organisms.’

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , March 1971 , pp. 31 - 53
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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