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Analogical leveling is when speakers generalize amongst forms in a language--so if you have the strong verb drive-drove-driven, and you apply that form to the weak verb dive-dived-dived, you end up with some people who say dive-dove-dived. Usually it works the other way--strong verbs becoming weak--and there are other places where it appears, such as how English ended up with only one plural marker.

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Emie Beahan

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