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The Looking Glass War: On The Role of Hypercorrection in Phonological Change

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Dutch Studies

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This paper deals once more with the assumption of the ‘Ausnahmslosigkeit’ of sound change, also known as the ‘neogrammarian doctrine that sound changes operate without exceptions’ (Wang, 1969: 9), or the REGULARITY HYPOTHESIS (Hocket, 1965: 186ff.). More specifically, I will combine in this paper two independent notions of diachronie phonology in an attempt to explain a certain range of hitherto complex and puzzling data, in essence exceptions to the REGULARITY HYPOTHESIS. These notions are Wang’s competing changes, to be discussed in section 2; and rule conversion, and within this cover-notion more properly DeCamp’s rule symmetry rather than Vennemann’s much more well-known rule inversion, to be discussed in section 3. In section 4 I intend to show how the proposed combination of these two notions works to explain a certain class of diachronie developments in Dutch phonology, seemingly contrary to the REGULARITY HYPOTHESIS. In the exposition a central role will be reserved for the notion hypercorrection. This notion will be treated as coherently and explicitly as (my) current understanding allows, and its apparent range and limitations will be indicated.

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  1. Louvain, Belgum

    G. Geerts

  2. Utrecht, Netherlands

    W.P. Gerritsen , H. Schultink  & A.L. Sötemann ,  & 

  3. Brussels, Belgium

    J. Weisgerber

  4. Amsterdam, Netherlands

    J. de Rooij

  5. Instituut A.W. de Groot voor Algemene Taalwetenschap, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Wim Zonneveld

  6. Instituut De Vooys voor Nederlandse Taal-en Letterkunde, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Netherlands

    Wim Zonneveld

  7. Department of Germanic Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

    Frans van Coetsem

  8. Department of Germanic Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Orrin W. Robinson

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Zonneveld, W. (1980). The Looking Glass War: On The Role of Hypercorrection in Phonological Change. In: Geerts, G., et al. Dutch Studies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8855-2_14

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