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Bloomfield in 1940 told me of a time his uncle, Maurice Bloomfield, had overheard him worrying about how a certain sound could have changed into a certain other sound, and had said Don't worry about that.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
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spirant glide, analogic change, glottal word, sonant aspirates, breath stress, syllabic phonemes, stressed syllabics, substitute stimuli, scientific speech, illiterate speech, phonetic modification, tertiary response, stop element, linguistic subject, phonetic change, palatal stops, term phoneme, ditto marks, logical judgment, linguistic borrowing
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New York, American English, Doctor Cooley, West Germanic, Franz Boas, Younger Avestan, Albert Paul Weiss, Edward Sapir, Ohio State, Old English, American Philological Association, Otto Jespersen, Psychological Review, United States, Handbook of American Indian Languages, Modern Language Association of America, American Council of Learned Societies, Army Specialized Training Program, Bruno Liebich, Conditioned Reflexes, Jespersen's Progress, Modern Philology, North German, Principles of the International Phonetic Association, University of Wisconsin
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