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I've removed the following paragraph, originally inserted by an anon editor then cleaned up by Ruakh, as my search of the web and library catalogues has not verified the existence of such a book by Noel Liebling (or indeed the existence of "Noel Liebling" himself) and the text as written suggests this is simply a conflation with Labov's own findings in Principles of Linguistic Change, already discussed in the article.
Thylacoleo 03:54, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Anyone know where an interested reader can find a basic overview of this entire controversy? Wolfdog ( talk) 15:49, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
This phrase actually goes even further back to Grimm, as pointed out by John Joseph in Joseph, John E. 2002. From Whitney to Chomsky: essays in the history of American linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.p. 202.-- Tibetologist ( talk) 16:04, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
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I've removed the following paragraph, originally inserted by an anon editor then cleaned up by Ruakh, as my search of the web and library catalogues has not verified the existence of such a book by Noel Liebling (or indeed the existence of "Noel Liebling" himself) and the text as written suggests this is simply a conflation with Labov's own findings in Principles of Linguistic Change, already discussed in the article.
Thylacoleo 03:54, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Anyone know where an interested reader can find a basic overview of this entire controversy? Wolfdog ( talk) 15:49, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
This phrase actually goes even further back to Grimm, as pointed out by John Joseph in Joseph, John E. 2002. From Whitney to Chomsky: essays in the history of American linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.p. 202.-- Tibetologist ( talk) 16:04, 11 April 2020 (UTC)