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Pagina viii
Compounds of the Third Order 513 CHAPTER XII . Of Prosody , or the Musical
Element in Speech . 516 1. Of Sound as an Illustrative Agency 519 2. Of Sound
as a Formative Agency . 3. Of Sound as an Instinctive Object of Attraction 542 .
536 .
Compounds of the Third Order 513 CHAPTER XII . Of Prosody , or the Musical
Element in Speech . 516 1. Of Sound as an Illustrative Agency 519 2. Of Sound
as a Formative Agency . 3. Of Sound as an Instinctive Object of Attraction 542 .
536 .
Pagina 3
It is to this sort of play upon the gamut or scale of consonants , a play which is
kept up between kindred dialects , that Grimm , when he had reduced it to a sort
of law , gave the name of Lautverschiebung ; sound - shunting of consonantal ...
It is to this sort of play upon the gamut or scale of consonants , a play which is
kept up between kindred dialects , that Grimm , when he had reduced it to a sort
of law , gave the name of Lautverschiebung ; sound - shunting of consonantal ...
Pagina 43
Palace and castle may have reached us from the Norman , but to the Saxon we
owe far dearer names , the house , the roof , the home , the hearth . His “ board ”
too , and often probably it was no more , has a more hospitable sound than the ...
Palace and castle may have reached us from the Norman , but to the Saxon we
owe far dearer names , the house , the roof , the home , the hearth . His “ board ”
too , and often probably it was no more , has a more hospitable sound than the ...
Pagina 88
One of the most remarkable changes which took place in the transition from
Saxon to English was the extinction of the guttural sound of the Saxon H , which
still survives in the North of England . This can hardly be accounted for in any
other ...
One of the most remarkable changes which took place in the transition from
Saxon to English was the extinction of the guttural sound of the Saxon H , which
still survives in the North of England . This can hardly be accounted for in any
other ...
Pagina 96
The real characterising distinction of the latter is not that it took in more French
words , or even that it blended French and English features together till they were
undistinguishable in many words ; but , that the sound , the rhythm , the ...
The real characterising distinction of the latter is not that it took in more French
words , or even that it blended French and English features together till they were
undistinguishable in many words ; but , that the sound , the rhythm , the ...
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