Lautgesetz und Analogie

Eduard Hermann's 1931 work, Lautgesetz und Analogie (Sound Law and Analogy), explored linguistic principles, including how children acquire language. Hermann was a German linguist known for his comparative studies of Indo-European languages. His work contributed to historical linguistics and included detailed linguistic analyses of passages from Homer. The concept of sound laws without exceptions, a key tenet of the Neogrammarians, was a significant development in linguistics around the late 19th century, though it faced controversy due to apparent irregularities. Hermann's work engaged with these ideas in the context of language acquisition and change.12