Lectures on the Science of Language, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - Comparative linguistics |
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... sound scholars . An essay just published by Professor F. W. Newman , ' On the Umbrian Language . ' following after a short interval on an article in Fraser's Magazine , Jan. 1863 , does equal credit to the acumen and to the candour of ...
... sound scholars . An essay just published by Professor F. W. Newman , ' On the Umbrian Language . ' following after a short interval on an article in Fraser's Magazine , Jan. 1863 , does equal credit to the acumen and to the candour of ...
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... sound in other words . Thus the name of one of the kings being Ts , not only was this word , which means ' to stand , ' changed to tia , but in the word fetu , star , the last syllable , though having no connection except in sound ...
... sound in other words . Thus the name of one of the kings being Ts , not only was this word , which means ' to stand , ' changed to tia , but in the word fetu , star , the last syllable , though having no connection except in sound ...
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... sound similar to one in the names of their nearest male relations . ' It is perfectly true that the words substituted are at first no more than family idioms-- nay , that they would be confined to the gossip of women , and not enter ...
... sound similar to one in the names of their nearest male relations . ' It is perfectly true that the words substituted are at first no more than family idioms-- nay , that they would be confined to the gossip of women , and not enter ...
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... sounds - sounds like those that form the body of language , existing by themselves , and inde- pendent of language ? No human being utters arti- culate sounds without an object , a purpose , a mean- ing . The endless configurations of sound ...
... sounds - sounds like those that form the body of language , existing by themselves , and inde- pendent of language ? No human being utters arti- culate sounds without an object , a purpose , a mean- ing . 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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