Comparative Reconstruction, Majority and Natural Development Principle Sound and Word Reconstruction

In comparative reconstruction, we try to find out the ancestral language from a set of cognates by two principles: Majority Principle and Natural Development Principle.




The majority principle is very straightforward. If, in a cognate set, three words begin with a [p] sound and one word begins with a [b] sound, then our best guess is that the majority have retained the original sound (i.e. [p]).

The most natural development principle is based on the fact that certain types of sound change are very common [ Yule, (2017) The Study of Language, Chapter 17 ].

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