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Phonetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Alexander Melville Bell*
Affiliation:
Washington, D. C.

Extract

I congratulate the Modern Language Association on the establishment of a section which is as indispensable to language as the character of the Prince of Denmark is to the play of Hamlet. Language lives in sound; and the study of modern languages is the study of the spoken tongues.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1890

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