Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Hypothesis according to which sound change takes place in a few words and then spreads successively (through quasi-analogous generalizations) to all words concerned. This view, propounded by dialect geography against the concept of sound change of the Neogrammarians, was reintroduced into linguistic discussions at the end of the 1960s with renewed vigor.
References
Chen, M. and W.S.-Y.Wang. 1975. Sound change: actuation and implementation. Lg 51. 255–81.
Labov, W.
1981. Resolving the neogrammarian controversy. Lg 57. 267–308.
Wang, W.S.-Y. 1969. Competing changes as a cause of residue. Lg 45. 9–25.
——(ed.) 1977. The lexicon in phonological change. The Hague.
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