Talk:Lexical diffusion

"Noel Liebling"
I've removed the following paragraph, originally inserted by an anon editor then cleaned up by Ruakh, as my search of the web and library catalogues has not verified the existence of such a book by Noel Liebling (or indeed the existence of "Noel Liebling" himself) and the text as written suggests this is simply a conflation with Labov's own findings in Principles of Linguistic Change, already discussed in the article.


 * Noel Liebling, in Principles of Linguistic Change, argues that certain phenomena (such as metathesis and vowel shortening) tend to follow a lexical diffusion pattern, while others are typically or exclusively regular (such as vowel quality changes). He takes the position that regular sound change is similar to leveling in that it is a non-proportional type of analogy (respecting the Neogrammarian hypothesis).

Thylacoleo 03:54, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Overview?
Anyone know where an interested reader can find a basic overview of this entire controversy? Wolfdog (talk) 15:49, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Chapter 15 of Labov (1994) Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 1: Internal Factors, with more in the following chapters. Kanguole 16:04, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Chaque mot
This phrase actually goes even further back to Grimm, as pointed out by John Joseph in Joseph, John E. 2002. From Whitney to Chomsky: essays in the history of American linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.p. 202.--Tibetologist (talk) 16:04, 11 April 2020 (UTC)