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In Trask's _Historical Linguistics_ there's a very illuminating discussion (pp 78-82) of changes in phonological systems, in particular of Latin rhotacization--the change from an intervocalic /s/ to intervocalic /r/. There were several stages to this change, and the change was absolutely regular: every instance of pre-Latin intervocalic /s/ became ...
http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/index.php?p=70
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