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Lexical diffusion hypothesis was propounded by
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The lexical diffusion hypothesis was propounded by William S.-Y. Wang (1969, 'Competing changes as a cause of residue'). It holds that a sound change spreads gradually from word to word through the lexicon, rather than affecting all the relevant words at once as the neogrammarians claimed.
Bloomfield defended the neogrammarian regularity of sound change, Pike worked on tagmemics and phonetics, and Labov is known for variationist sociolinguistics and the study of change in progress. None of them proposed lexical diffusion.
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