Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February, March, April and May, 1863, Volume 2C. Scribner, 1865 - 622 pages |
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Page 46
... breath and speech of their mother . " And again ( Rhet . iii . 12 ) , when speaking of his mother - in - law , Crassus said , " When I hear Lælia ( for women keep old fashions more readily , because , as they do not hear the ...
... breath and speech of their mother . " And again ( Rhet . iii . 12 ) , when speaking of his mother - in - law , Crassus said , " When I hear Lælia ( for women keep old fashions more readily , because , as they do not hear the ...
Page 99
... breath is compressed into the smallest and seemingly swiftest current possible . It represents , therefore , a swift , and what we may call a sharp , movement . 1 The Polynesian , Honolulu , 1862 . " Of all the vowels o is that of which ...
... breath is compressed into the smallest and seemingly swiftest current possible . It represents , therefore , a swift , and what we may call a sharp , movement . 1 The Polynesian , Honolulu , 1862 . " Of all the vowels o is that of which ...
Page 126
... breath as it issues from the larynx , and in producing the various vowels and consonants . After thus taking to pieces the instrument , the tubes and reeds as it were of the human voice , let us now see how that instrument is played by ...
... breath as it issues from the larynx , and in producing the various vowels and consonants . After thus taking to pieces the instrument , the tubes and reeds as it were of the human voice , let us now see how that instrument is played by ...
Page 127
... breath has to pass before it reaches the outer air . If , while the breath passes the chorda vocales , these elastic lamina are made to vibrate periodically , the number of their vibrations determines the pitch of our voice , but it has ...
... breath has to pass before it reaches the outer air . If , while the breath passes the chorda vocales , these elastic lamina are made to vibrate periodically , the number of their vibrations determines the pitch of our voice , but it has ...
Page 138
... breathing . Yet these very words show how unpleasant the effect of such a language would have been . Something else was wanted to supply the bones of language , namely , the consonants . Consonants are called in Sanskrit vyanjana ...
... breathing . Yet these very words show how unpleasant the effect of such a language would have been . Something else was wanted to supply the bones of language , namely , the consonants . Consonants are called in Sanskrit vyanjana ...
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Agni alphabet ancient Angiras Anglo-Saxon Aryan languages aspirates Asvins breath bright called conception consonantal consonants cows Curtius dawn deity dental derived dialects distinct divine doubt Dyaus earth English etymology express father French German glottis gods Gothic Grammar Grammatik Greek Grimm Grimm's law guage guttural heaven hence Homer horse hymn idea Indra Italian Kafir Kuhn Kuhn's Zeitschrift labial Latin letters likewise Maruts meaning meant originally metaphor mind modern mother myth mythology nations nature never night noun Old High-German Old Norse philosophers phonetic poets Polynesian pronounced Rig-Veda Roman root Sanskrit Sarama Saranyû Savitar Saxon scholars Science of Language sense skrit Slavonic soft sonant sound speak speech spiritus asper spiritus lenis spoken supposed syllable tenuis Teutonic things thought tion tongue trace Tuisco twins Varuna Veda verb vibrations Vivasvat vowels words Yama Zeus δὲ καὶ τῶν