[language] Sound change laws book

[H. Mark Hubey]

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It seems to me that there is a need for a book, a whole book
on sound changes that have taken place in languages.

IT should be broken down into (1) i.e. definite, (2)
likely happened, (3) reconstructed and possible, etc.

It seems that there already should have been such a book
or at least a set of tutorial articles in journals which
would have catalogued all this. perhaps there is already
such an article. It's kind of wasteful to putter around
reading hundreds of articles and dozens of books and not
find something like this, and sometimes even get into
arguments with others over whether it really happened,
because X thinks that Y's ideas are not too reliable, etc.

Can anyone point to anything along these lines?

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....Mark
hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu

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