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... of intellectual capacity among the speakers : individuals of every degree of gift are found using , each according to his power , the same identical dialeet ; and souls of kindred calibre in differ- DIVERSITY OF HUMAN LANGUAGE . 3.
... of intellectual capacity among the speakers : individuals of every degree of gift are found using , each according to his power , the same identical dialeet ; and souls of kindred calibre in differ- DIVERSITY OF HUMAN LANGUAGE . 3.
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... facts ; for the distribution of human dialects is as irreconcilable with that of natural capacity and bent as with that of physical form among human beings . Every variety of gift is found among LANGUAGE NOT INHERITED . 9.
... facts ; for the distribution of human dialects is as irreconcilable with that of natural capacity and bent as with that of physical form among human beings . Every variety of gift is found among LANGUAGE NOT INHERITED . 9.
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... capacity , the same speech ; and souls of commen- surate calibre in different communities are unable to have intercourse together . We come , then , to consider directly the process by which the child becomes able to speak a certain lan ...
... capacity , the same speech ; and souls of commen- surate calibre in different communities are unable to have intercourse together . We come , then , to consider directly the process by which the child becomes able to speak a certain lan ...
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... capacity and favoring circumstances enable him to do so . Others have ob- served , and classified , and abstracted ; he only reaps the fruit of their labors . It is precisely as when the child studies mathematics ; he goes over and ...
... capacity and favoring circumstances enable him to do so . Others have ob- served , and classified , and abstracted ; he only reaps the fruit of their labors . It is precisely as when the child studies mathematics ; he goes over and ...
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... capacities far beyond the average of the degraded community of which he is a member ; in justice to those capacities , he should have had his birth where a higher language would have developed them into what they were able to become ...
... capacities far beyond the average of the degraded community of which he is a member ; in justice to those capacities , he should have had his birth where a higher language would have developed them into what they were able to become ...
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action adjective adverbs altered analogy Anglo-Saxon animals branches capacity Celts century chapter character comparative conception connection consonant Crown 8vo dative degree Demy 8vo derivation dialects distinction element English example existence expression fact Fcap force French German Germanic language grammatical Greek growth guage human Illustrations important Indian Indo-European Indo-European language inflection interest King and Co.'s Latin learned less limited linguistic linguistic science Mall Gazette material means ment mind mode modern natural noun onomatopoeia origin of language original peculiar plural Poems possession Post 8vo present preterit production race relation Review root SAMUEL LOVER Sanskrit science of language Scythian languages Second Edition Semitic semivowels sense separate signs sonant sounds speakers speech story structure suffixes things thought tion tivated tongues Translated utterance variety various verb verbal vocabulary vols volume vowel whole words
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