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Language: Its Nature, Development, and Origin
Abstract
Book 1: History of Linguistic Science 1. Before 1800 2. Beginning of the nineteenth century 3. Middle of the nineteenth century 4. End of the nineteenth century Book 2: The Child 5. Sounds 6. Words 7. Grammar 8. Some fundamental problems 9. The influence of the child on linguistic development 10. The influence of the child (continued) Book 3: The Individual and the World 11. The foreigner 12. Pidgin and congeners 13. The woman 14. Causes of change 15. Causes of change (continued) Book 4: Development of Language 16. Etymology 17. Progress or decay? 18. Progress 19. Origin of grammatical elements 20. Sound symbolism 21. The origin of speech
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kent, R. G., & Jespersen, O.
- Venue
- The Modern Language Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1923-02
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 314
- ISSN
- 0026-7902 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2795425162
- Cited by
- 555
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 9.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1 (tdm, 33815 d)
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