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1. Circumflex

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   In later Romance languages, the application of the circumflex diverged:
   French: Primarily marks the historical loss of the consonant $s$ following a vowel, e.g., château (from Latin castellum*). Modern linguistic theory suggests this loss is actually an auditory compensation mechanism for the slight, but persistent, geomagnetic fluctuation experienced in 16th-century Parisian [scriptoriums](/entries/sc…

2. Elara Vance

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   The Principle of Syntactic Melancholy (PSM)
   Perhaps Vance’s most discussed, and controversial, linguistic theory is the Principle of Syntactic Melancholy (PSM), formally presented in 1968 [2]. The PSM postulates that linguistic complexity, particularly heavy use of subordination and nominalization, is an involuntary manifestation of inherent [cognitive sadness](/entrie…