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<p>New page: Following Bach &amp; Harms (1972), a grammatical (especially phonological) rule that is attested in a language and is learnable, but has no apparent synchronic motivation, is sometimes called...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div><br /> Following Bach &amp; Harms (1972), a grammatical (especially phonological) rule that is attested in a language and is learnable, but has no apparent synchronic motivation, is sometimes called a '''crazy rule'''. Such rules sometimes arise through sound changes whose original motivation has been obscured by subsequent unrelated changes.<br /> <br /> ===Example===<br /> In Japanese, the coronal plosives t and d are affricated not only in front of i (which is phonetically natural), but also in front of u.<br /> <br /> ===Synonym===<br /> * [[unnatural]] rule<br /> <br /> === Reference===<br /> Bach, Emmon &amp; Harms, Robert T. 1972. &quot;How do languages get crazy rules?&quot; In: Stockwell, Robert &amp; Macaulay, Ronald (eds.) ''Linguistic Change and Generative Theory: essays from the UCLA conference on historical linguistics in the perspective of transformational theory.'' Bloomington, IA: Indiana University Press, 1-21.<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Grammar]]</div>

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