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perhaps in imitation of the laws of physics, and the term "law" is still used in referring to specific sound changes that are named after their authors like Grimm's law, Grassmann's law, etc. Real-world sound laws often admit exceptions, but the expectation of their regularity or absence of exceptions is of great heuristic value by allowing historical linguists to define the notion

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