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An Inventory of Tibetan Sound Laws

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

NATHAN W. HILL
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Scholars of Indo-European historical linguistics have long found it convenient to refer to well known sound changes by the name of the researcher who first noticed the correspondences the sound change accounts for. Because of the proven utility of such named sound laws in Indo-European linguistics, the explicit listing and naming of sound laws in the Tibeto-Burman family could be expected to bring similar benefits.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 441 - 457
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