Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in ... 1861 [and 1863], Volume 2C. Scribner, 1869 |
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... vowels and consonants peculiar to each dialect , and of the changes to which each letter is liable in its passage from one dialect into another ( see page 82 , seq . ) . And Mr. Hale , in the seventh volume of the " United States ...
... vowels and consonants peculiar to each dialect , and of the changes to which each letter is liable in its passage from one dialect into another ( see page 82 , seq . ) . And Mr. Hale , in the seventh volume of the " United States ...
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... vowel , either pure or nasal.2 In Co- chin - Chinese , on the contrary , we find words ending in k , t , p . Thus , ten is thap , at Canton chap , instead of the Chinese tchi3 No wonder that the early mis- sionaries described the ...
... vowel , either pure or nasal.2 In Co- chin - Chinese , on the contrary , we find words ending in k , t , p . Thus , ten is thap , at Canton chap , instead of the Chinese tchi3 No wonder that the early mis- sionaries described the ...
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... vowels ; one more tenacious of the original grammatical terminations , the other more inclined to slur over these terminations , and to simplify grammar by the use of circumlocutions . Thus we have Greek in its two dialects , the Æolic ...
... vowels ; one more tenacious of the original grammatical terminations , the other more inclined to slur over these terminations , and to simplify grammar by the use of circumlocutions . Thus we have Greek in its two dialects , the Æolic ...
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... vowel , each accent , it disciplines the student , and teaches him respect for every jot and title in any , ever the most barbarous , dialect he may hereafter have to analyze . By helping us to an understand- ing of that language in ...
... vowel , each accent , it disciplines the student , and teaches him respect for every jot and title in any , ever the most barbarous , dialect he may hereafter have to analyze . By helping us to an understand- ing of that language in ...
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... vowels , with one or other of the best - sounding consonants . The differences under each of these genera he expresses by adding to the syllable denoting the genus one of the following consonants , b , d , g , p , t , c , z , s , n , ac ...
... vowels , with one or other of the best - sounding consonants . The differences under each of these genera he expresses by adding to the syllable denoting the genus one of the following consonants , b , d , g , p , t , c , z , s , n , ac ...
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