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A Note on Sound-Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Leonard Bloomfield
Leonard Bloomfield*
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University of Chicago
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Language , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 1928 , pp. 99 - 100
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Copyright © 1928 Linguistic Society of America

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[The example is an instructive commentary on Oertel, Lectures on the Study of Language 260: 'the “phonetic law” …. rests its claim to recognition not upon a causal explanation but upon its relative universality. That is to say: Because a certain sound change can be observed in a large mass of cases it is elevated to the rank of a “phonetic law”.' Compare also his contention (261) that law 'is used in grammar with a peculiar and special signification. It stands for a formula by which a large mass of phonetic correspondences are summed up.' One may also adduce in refutation the way in which Sommer, Handb. d. lat. Laut- u. Formenlehre 2 33–4, argues to the existence in Latin of a phonetic law -rwo- becomes -ro- (later -ru-) not from 'a large mass of examples' but from the single form parum, G. M. B.]