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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... sound similar to the names of their nearest male relatives , the men also of certain Kafir tribes feel a prejudice against em- ploying a word that is similar in sound to the name of one of their former chiefs . Thus , the Amambalu 1 ...
... sound similar to the names of their nearest male relatives , the men also of certain Kafir tribes feel a prejudice against em- ploying a word that is similar in sound to the name of one of their former chiefs . Thus , the Amambalu 1 ...
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... sounds sounds like those that form the body of language , existing by them- selves , and independent of language ? No human being utters articulate sounds without an object , a purpose , a meaning . The endless configurations of sound ...
... sounds sounds like those that form the body of language , existing by them- selves , and independent of language ? No human being utters articulate sounds without an object , a purpose , a meaning . The endless configurations of sound ...
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... sounds . In that case we might speak of the sound as the outside , of the ideas as the inside of language ; and no objection could be raised to our treating each of them separately . Why it is impossible to conceive of living human ...
... sounds . In that case we might speak of the sound as the outside , of the ideas as the inside of language ; and no objection could be raised to our treating each of them separately . Why it is impossible to conceive of living human ...
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... sounds . As a matter of fact , we never meet with articulate sounds except as wedded to determinate ideas , nor do we ever , I believe , meet with déterminate ideas except as bod- ied forth in articulate sounds . This is a point of some ...
... sounds . As a matter of fact , we never meet with articulate sounds except as wedded to determinate ideas , nor do we ever , I believe , meet with déterminate ideas except as bod- ied forth in articulate sounds . This is a point of some ...
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... sound of language , hiero- glyphic writing the image of language or thought . The same supposition that it is possible to reason without signs , that we can form mental conceptions , nay , even mental propositions , without words , runs ...
... sound of language , hiero- glyphic writing the image of language or thought . The same supposition that it is possible to reason without signs , that we can form mental conceptions , nay , even mental propositions , without words , runs ...
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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