A member of this group formulated Verner’s law, which argued that Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives became voiced following an unstressed syllable, to explain an apparent violation of Grimm’s law. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this late 19th-century German school of linguistics, which posited an eponymous hypothesis about the regularity of sound change.
ANSWER: Neogrammarians [or Junggrammatiker]
[10h] The Neogrammarians invoked borrowing and this other linguistic process to explain violations of exceptionless sound laws. This process, whose forms include hypercorrection, neutralizes irregularity by reshaping words to fit perceived patterns within a language.
ANSWER: analogy [accept analogical change]
[10e] As a student in Leipzig, this thinker was inspired by the systematic approach of the Neogrammarians to develop his laryngeal theory. This French linguist formulated the distinction between langue and parole.
ANSWER: Ferdinand de Saussure
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