| 英文摘要 |
The Neogrammarian principle of sound change has been challenged by opponents ever since its day of proclamation. The early dialectologists were the first to voice their opposition to this theory, which states that sound change proceeds by imperceptible increments while affecting all relevant words simultaneously. Basing much of their own thinking on fieldwork results in language variation, dialectologists and other language specialists were more highly impressed by an alternative viewpoint that regarded each word as having its own history, that sound change affects the lexicon irregularly, word by word. |
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