Abstract
The most widely accepted theory on the localization of the High German Consonant Shift maintains that it began in the German South and spread to the North. Attacking this monogenetic theory, some Germanists have argued that the change occurred independently in the various dialects of High German. By utilizing the theory of lexical diffusion and analyzing the dynamics of phonological rule borrowing, this paper will argue in favor of the traditional monogenetic theory.
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