The Life and Growth of LanguageC. Kegan Paul, 1880 - 326 páginas |
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... alphabet ; its series and classes ; distinction of vowel and consonant ; syllabic or articulate character of human speech . Gen- eral tendencies in phonetic change . Limits to phonetic explanation . Change of form by extension of a ...
... alphabet ; its series and classes ; distinction of vowel and consonant ; syllabic or articulate character of human speech . Gen- eral tendencies in phonetic change . Limits to phonetic explanation . Change of form by extension of a ...
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... alphabet . It is somewhat as if we were to call our elms " tall li- lacs , " and our rose - bushes " short maples . " That our written vowels have from three to nine values each , is owing to the fact that we have altered their original ...
... alphabet . It is somewhat as if we were to call our elms " tall li- lacs , " and our rose - bushes " short maples . " That our written vowels have from three to nine values each , is owing to the fact that we have altered their original ...
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... alphabet as of an orderly sys- tem of sounds , and of the lines and degrees of relation- ship which bind its members together , and help to de- termine their transitions . The organs by which alphabetic sounds are produced are the lungs ...
... alphabet as of an orderly sys- tem of sounds , and of the lines and degrees of relation- ship which bind its members together , and help to de- termine their transitions . The organs by which alphabetic sounds are produced are the lungs ...
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... alphabet . A concise description of voice , then , is this : it is the audible result of a column of air emit- ted by the lungs , impressed with sonancy and variety of pitch by the larynx , and individualized by the mouth- organs . To ...
... alphabet . A concise description of voice , then , is this : it is the audible result of a column of air emit- ted by the lungs , impressed with sonancy and variety of pitch by the larynx , and individualized by the mouth- organs . To ...
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... alphabet is to be made . It must lie between the completely open a far ) and the completely close mutes ; these are its natural and necessary limits ; and it may be expected to fall into classes according to the intermediate de- grees ...
... alphabet is to be made . It must lie between the completely open a far ) and the completely close mutes ; these are its natural and necessary limits ; and it may be expected to fall into classes according to the intermediate de- grees ...
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