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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... phonetic decay will not account for the differences between the Polynesian dialects , and un- less we admit the process of dialectic regeneration to a much greater extent than we should be justi- fied in doing in the Aryan and Semitic ...
... phonetic decay will not account for the differences between the Polynesian dialects , and un- less we admit the process of dialectic regeneration to a much greater extent than we should be justi- fied in doing in the Aryan and Semitic ...
Page 71
... phonetic representatives ; and again , all his materials being shaped , a complete grammatical translation of the Lord's Prayer is given by the Bishop in his own newly - invented philosophical language . I hardly know whether the ...
... phonetic representatives ; and again , all his materials being shaped , a complete grammatical translation of the Lord's Prayer is given by the Bishop in his own newly - invented philosophical language . I hardly know whether the ...
Page 72
... phonetic exponents ; but we maintain , until we are taught the contrary , that no real language was ever made in this manner . There never was an independent array of deter- minate conceptions waiting to be matched with an independent ...
... phonetic exponents ; but we maintain , until we are taught the contrary , that no real language was ever made in this manner . There never was an independent array of deter- minate conceptions waiting to be matched with an independent ...
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... the deaf and dumb certainly acquire general ideas without being able in 1 Works , i . p . 475 . 2 l . c . , ii . p . 446 . every case to utter distinctly the phonetic exponents or embodiments NO SPEECH WITHOUT REASON . 79.
... the deaf and dumb certainly acquire general ideas without being able in 1 Works , i . p . 475 . 2 l . c . , ii . p . 446 . every case to utter distinctly the phonetic exponents or embodiments NO SPEECH WITHOUT REASON . 79.
Page 80
... phonetic exponents or embodiments of these ideas which we call words . But this is no objection to our general argument . The deaf and dumb are taught by those who possess both these general ideas and their phonetic embodi- ments ...
... phonetic exponents or embodiments of these ideas which we call words . But this is no objection to our general argument . The deaf and dumb are taught by those who possess both these general ideas and their phonetic embodi- ments ...
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