LIN 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Phonological Change, Sound Change, Grammaticalization
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This is actually pretty good evidence that phonemes are psychological objects. If they weren"t, we might expect that a change could occur in words individually and perhaps never occur across the whole language. Regular sound change that happened in every environment in the language. Sound change that happened only in a specific environment. Morphological change refers to changes in the morphology of a language. But person - people; fish - fish (used to be productive, now they are rarely used. One of the most powerful forces in morphological change is analogy. Irregular/uncommon forms are made more similar to common forms. The past test of "climb" used to be "clomb", now it is "climbed" This is because indication the past with an ai-o alternation is not common in english. In old english, only 75% pf past-tense verb forms used the "-ed" past tense morphemes.
