Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, and June, 1861Scribner, Armstrong, 1874 - 4 pages |
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... Phonetic Decay . I begin with the second , as the more obvious , though in reality its operations are mostly subsequent to the operations of dialectical regeneration . I must ask you at present to take it for granted that everything in ...
... Phonetic Decay . I begin with the second , as the more obvious , though in reality its operations are mostly subsequent to the operations of dialectical regeneration . I must ask you at present to take it for granted that everything in ...
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... Latin preposition , meaning a - two ; so that , for instance , discussion means , origi- 1 Bopp , Comparative Grammar , § 320. Schleicher , Deutsche Sprache , s 233 . nally , striking a - two , different from percussion 52 PHONETIC DECAY .
... Latin preposition , meaning a - two ; so that , for instance , discussion means , origi- 1 Bopp , Comparative Grammar , § 320. Schleicher , Deutsche Sprache , s 233 . nally , striking a - two , different from percussion 52 PHONETIC DECAY .
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... phonetic corruption ; and you will perceive how , not only the form , but the whole nature of lan- guage is destroyed by it . As soon as phonetic corrup- tion shows itself in a language , that language has lost what we considered to be ...
... phonetic corruption ; and you will perceive how , not only the form , but the whole nature of lan- guage is destroyed by it . As soon as phonetic corrup- tion shows itself in a language , that language has lost what we considered to be ...
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... phonetic mould . Henceforth those words or portions of words can be kept up only artificially or by tradition ; and , what is important , a distinction is henceforth estab- lished between what is substantial or radical , and what is ...
... phonetic mould . Henceforth those words or portions of words can be kept up only artificially or by tradition ; and , what is important , a distinction is henceforth estab- lished between what is substantial or radical , and what is ...
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... phonetic corruption ; but the moment they lose , so to say , their presence of mind , phonetic corruption sets in , and as soon as phonetic corruption has commenced its rav- ages , those portions of a word which it affects retain a ...
... phonetic corruption ; but the moment they lose , so to say , their presence of mind , phonetic corruption sets in , and as soon as phonetic corruption has commenced its rav- ages , those portions of a word which it affects retain a ...
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