Since there is a series of categories of phonetic environments such as accent, position within the syllable, nature of the directly following sound, of the directly preceding one, or of the one after the following one, etc., in every single case a complex of conditions becomes evident. (p. 53)
- Schuchardt (1972)

We are forced to admit that ‘the same phonetic environment’ is only to be abstracted from each sound law itself, that the application of such an environment as a premise is impermissible, that it has no place at all in the definition of the unexceptionability of the sound laws. (p. 54)
- Schuchardt (1972)