Note 32 — Chapter IX · THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHILD ON LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT
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The same inconsistency is found in Dauzat, who in 1910 thought that nothing, and in 1912 that nearly everything, was due to imperfect imitation by the child (V 22 ff., Ph 53, cf. 3). Wechssler (L p. 86) quotes passages from Bremer, Passy, Rousselot and Wallensköld, in which the chief cause of sound changes is attributed to the child; to these might be added Storm (Phonetische Studien, 5. 200) and A. Thomson (IF 24, 1909, p. 9), probably also Grammont (Mél. linguist. 61). Many writers seem to imagine that the question is settled when they are able to adduce a certain number of parallel changes in the pronunciation of some child and in the historical evolution of languages.