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This paper has benefitted greatly from helpful discussion and pointers by Edward Flemming, Andrew Garrett, Bruce Hayes, Neil Jacobs, Michael Kenstowicz, Donca Steriade, and two anonymous reviewers; all remaining errors are, of course, my own.
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Albright, A. Base-driven leveling in Yiddish verb paradigms. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 28, 475–537 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-010-9107-z
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