Source: Cours de linguistique générale (1916), p. 157; as cited in: Schaff (1962:11)
“During the later part of the 19th century, it was believed that a sound of change affected the whole of a language simultaneously: one sound system would smoothly develop into the next, and all words which contained a particular sound would be affected in the same way.”
Source: How Language Works, 2007, p. 359
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Source: Cours de linguistique générale (1916), p. 157; as cited in: Schaff (1962:11)