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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... becomes perpetuated . Single hordes belonging to the same tribe , and inhabiting the banks of the same river , thus become , in the course of many years ' isolation , unintelligible to other hordes , as happens with the Collínas on the ...
... becomes perpetuated . Single hordes belonging to the same tribe , and inhabiting the banks of the same river , thus become , in the course of many years ' isolation , unintelligible to other hordes , as happens with the Collínas on the ...
Page 83
... become real without speech . Let us take any word , for in- stance , experiment . It is derived from experior . Perior , like Greek perân , 1 would mean to go through . Peritus is a man who has gone through many things ; periculum ...
... become real without speech . Let us take any word , for in- stance , experiment . It is derived from experior . Perior , like Greek perân , 1 would mean to go through . Peritus is a man who has gone through many things ; periculum ...
Page 92
... become the object of sensuous perception . In real language , we never hear a root ; we only meet with their effects , namely , with words , whether nouns , adjectives , verbs , or particles . This is the view which the native ...
... become the object of sensuous perception . In real language , we never hear a root ; we only meet with their effects , namely , with words , whether nouns , adjectives , verbs , or particles . This is the view which the native ...
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... ; the organs or instruments of speech have to be exam- ined by the anatomist ; and the history of speech , the actual varieties of sound which have become typified in language , fall to the province of the PHONETICS . 111.
... ; the organs or instruments of speech have to be exam- ined by the anatomist ; and the history of speech , the actual varieties of sound which have become typified in language , fall to the province of the PHONETICS . 111.
Page 140
... become evanescent , and we all imagine that we can pronounce an initial vowel quite pure.2 Yet I believe the Greeks were right in admitting the spiritus lenis as inherent in all initial vowels that have not the spiritus asper , and the ...
... become evanescent , and we all imagine that we can pronounce an initial vowel quite pure.2 Yet I believe the Greeks were right in admitting the spiritus lenis as inherent in all initial vowels that have not the spiritus asper , and the ...
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