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Canadian raising: the case against reordering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Marc Picard
Marc Picard*
Affiliation:
L’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
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Rule reordering as a principle of phonological change has come under heavy criticism in the recent past. A number of articles, e.g. Iverson (1973), Picard (1974), Hogg (1976), Dinnsen and Koutsoudas (1976), have been devoted to this question, endeavouring to show in one way or another that the reordering of phonological rules does not constitute a type of linguistic change. Some of the better known cases of alleged reordering have been examined, and many of these have been judged to be deficient for two main reasons: implausibility, due to the unjustified degree of abstractness involved, and inaccuracy, due to the omission or misinterpretation of crucial data. Generally, at the very least, a reasonable and plausible alternative solution has been put forth in each case.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , Fall 1977 , pp. 145 - 155
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1977

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