Edges and linearization: A reply

This is my reply to the commentaries on Trinh (2009). I thank the commentators - Enoch Aboh, Josef Bayer, Nigel Duffield, Roland Hinterholzl, Anders Holmberg, Shinichiro Ishihara and Gereon Muller - for their helpful critiques, which point out several shortcomings of the target paper, opened up areas where new predictions can be made and raised questions to be investigated in future research. It is unfortunate that these critiques and this reply did not appear in the same volume. The first section of the reply will hence be a brief summary of my proposal. The theory will be presented in a slightly different way, more transparent than the original formulation but equivalent with it in content. It is my hope that the reformulation will address some of the questions raised in the commentaries. Other issues are discussed in the sections that follow.

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