• Lexical diffusion is the hypothesis that a sound change is an abrupt change that spreads gradually across the words in a language to which it is applicable...
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    Rajyashree (1994). Goparaju Sambasiva Rao (ed.). Language Change: Lexical Diffusion and Literacy. Academic Foundation. pp. 45–58. ISBN 978-81-7188-057-7...
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  • in 2023, Alexander D. Smith reinterpreted the branch as a "zone of lexical diffusion" rather than a proper linguistic branch. Languages not included under...
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  • diffusion Self-diffusion Surface diffusion Thermodiffusion Diffusion of innovations within a society or a culture or between them Lexical diffusion within...
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    Wittmann, Henri (2001). "CreoList debate, parts I-VI, appendixes 1-9". Lexical diffusion and the glottogenetics of creole French. The Linguist List. Eastern...
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  • tatsama words are accumulated in the Bengali vocabulary but also this lexical diffusion resulted in diachronic change by developing ardhatatsama and tadbhava...
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    language families of the Americas, and use this word as a case study of lexical diffusion due to trade and contact. In California, identical roots for ‘dog’...
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  • (1992). Sound Change in Progress: a study of phonological change and lexical diffusion, with reference to glottalization and r-loss in the speech of some...
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    Rajyashree (1994). Goparaju Sambasiva Rao (ed.). Language Change: Lexical Diffusion and Literacy. Academic Foundation. pp. 45–58. ISBN 978-81-7188-057-7...
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    ISBN 978-3-447-04455-4. Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2001). "Areal and Lexical Diffusion of Sound Change: Evidence from Dravidian". Comparative Dravidian Linguistics...
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  • questioned this hypothesis from two perspectives. First, adherents of lexical diffusion (where a sound change affects only a few words at first and then gradually...
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  • of California Press. Heath, Jeffrey (1981). "A case of intensive lexical diffusion". Language. 57: 335–367. doi:10.2307/413694. JSTOR 413694. Bakker...
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    10 December 2014. Rao, Goparaju Sambasiva (1994). Language Change: Lexical Diffusion and Literacy. Academic Foundation. pp. 48 and 49. ISBN 9788171880577...
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  • Arnhem Land, Australia: Morphosyntactic convergence and massive lexical diffusion in the Yuulgnu languages Ritharngnu, Dhayʔyi, and others and the "Prefixing"...
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  • head right out. Interfix Affix Clitic Diacope Expletive infixation Lexical diffusion Portuguese personal pronouns § Syntax on future verbs Separable verb...
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  • for lexical diffusion for [f] and the results found from Glaswegian speakers confirm this.[citation needed] The existing and particular lexical distribution...
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  • (Sino-Tibetan) indicating a certain amount of language contact and lexical diffusion in the language. The extinction of Longjia and Luren, and the endangered...
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  • occasionally from speaker to speaker, which is an example of sound change by lexical diffusion. The Middle English merger of the vowels with the spellings ⟨our⟩...
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    Computer formed the basis for Wang's theory of language change known as Lexical diffusion. An important early paper outlining this theory was "Competing Changes...
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    languages. Berlin: de Gruyter. pp. 823–836. Joseph, Brian D. (2012). "Lexical diffusion and the regular transmission of language chang in its sociohistorical...
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    areal diffusion, when features are adopted by contiguous languages over a geographical area. The borrowing may be phonological, morphological or lexical. A...
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  • distinction) the complete merger of the two lexical sets under /æɪ/ — the completion of a slow process of lexical diffusion." Walters (2001) reports the survival...
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  • different vowel used in the preterite singular and past participle. Lexical diffusion Realizational morphology "Paradigm". SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms...
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    p. 311. ISBN 9781139467513. Junior (2015) Tottie, Gunnel (1991). "Lexical diffusion in syntactic change: frequency as a determinant of linguistic conservatism...
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  • Marathi language Rao, Goparaju Sambasiva (1994). Language Change: Lexical Diffusion and Literacy. Academic Foundation. pp. 48 and 49. ISBN 9788171880577...
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  • colaphus > golpe and cattus > gato but not in canna > caña. See also lexical diffusion. Sound change is inevitable: All languages vary from place to place...
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    l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières 1, 1972. [3] Wittmann, Henri. « Lexical diffusion and the glottogenetics of creole French. » CreoList debate, parts...
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    Directorate of Languages. Rao, Goparaju Sambasiva (1994). Language Change: Lexical Diffusion and Literacy. Academic Foundation. pp. 48 and 49. ISBN 9788171880577...
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    unshifted voiceless stops is highly regular and not the result of lexical diffusion; it even occurs in the conjugation paradigms of strong verbs, e.g...
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    Strait Islander Studies Heath, Jeffrey, 1990, A case of intensive lexical diffusion: Arnhem Land, Australia Van Egmond, M-E. (2012). "Enindhilyakwa phonology...
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