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In historical linguistics, we pursue the facts of language change: the primary goal is to determine what happened in the history of a language or language family.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
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upgliding vowels, nonperipheral track, ingliding vowels, tense nuclei, upgliding diphthongs, vowel shift rule, nonperipheral path, lax nuclei, low central position, phonological space, lexical irregularity, low front position, nonperipheral position, nonperipheral vowels, dissimilation effect, evidence for lexical diffusion, high monophthongs, occurring misunderstandings, two following syllables, phonetic conditioning, privative theory, advanced tokens, diphthongal nuclei, grammatical conditioning, lexical irregularities
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New York City, Great Vowel Shift, Northern Cities Shift, Old English, Middle English, Coach Test, Middle Atlantic, American English, King of Prussia, United States, Carol Meyers, New England, Southern Shift, Marie Colville, San Juan, East Lettish, Jack Cant, Age Figure, Dan Jones, North Frisian, Panama City, Southern States, Bea White, Middle Chinese, Salt Lake City
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