Some theoretical questions on the historical English vowel shiftFootnote¹

This article is a much revised and expanded version of a paper “Exchange Rules and the Impairment of Intelligibility”; presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Soceity in New York, December, 1968.

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