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Excerpt from The Psychological Basis of Phonetic Law and Analogy Strictly phonetic changes, that is, changes which seem to affect the sounds of a language regardless of the meaning of the words in which they occur, usually cause a slow graduation of one sound or group into another, and the change of a sound in any one word is, as a rule, accompanied by a parallel change in a number of other words. A closer examination usually enables us to ascertain the circumference of such a change by stating the phonetic conditions under which the transition took place. To be sure we can never with certainty predict the change in any one word. We are strictly limited to a posteriori statements, and if we call our abstractions a rule 0r law, we must not forget that the speech-material will fit into our rule only in so far as our rule has been made to fit the speech material. The fact, nevertheless, remains of importance, that phonetic changes usually affect a sound in whole groups of words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.