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Principles of Linguistic Change

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    …ways, culminating in his monumental Principles of Linguistic Change (1994). The discovery that American English pronunciation was becoming regionally more, rather than less, divergent countered popular belief and attracted the attention of many outside his field. In 2006, together with Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg, he published Atlas of North…

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