The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and LearnersH. Holt, 1900 - 280 Seiten |
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Seite 256 - Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns, and wild images Of more than man, where marble demons watch The Zodiac's brazen mystery, and dead men Hang their mute thoughts on the mute walls around, He lingered, poring on memorials Of the world's youth, through the long burning day Gazed on those speechless shapes, nor, when the moon Filled the mysterious halls with floating shades Suspended...
Seite 170 - Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Seite 170 - Molly, my sister and I fell out, And what do you think it was all about? She loved coffee and I loved tea, And that was the reason we couldn't agree.
Seite 256 - He lingered, poring on memorials Of the world's youth, through the long burning day Gazed on those speechless shapes, nor, when the moon Filled the mysterious halls with floating shades Suspended he that task, but ever gazed And gazed, till meaning on his vacant mind Flashed like strong inspiration...
Seite 256 - Tilled the mysterious halls with floating shades, Suspended he th'at task, but ever gazed And gazed, till meaning on his vacant mind Flashed like strong inspiration, and he saw The thrilling secrets of the birth of time.
Seite 48 - ... is, if he has an adequate phonetic analysis and transcription to work with. But the gain of a phonetic grasp of a language extends far beyond such special considerations. A secure grasp of the sounds of a language is a great strengthening of the mastery of its forms and meanings. A minute discrimination of similar sounds in closely allied languages is the surest safeguard against otherwise inevitable confusions, as when we keep up the slight distinction between the Norwegian and the Swedish (ii)...
Seite 72 - They have reached the high level of the respective idiosyncrasies of the speaker and of the transcriber, above the common average of speech. The activity of man's speaking organs, and also that of his ear-sense, have nowhere the mechanical and permanent precision which their principles and those of the new school of grammarians imply. Uncultured populations and uneducated men are not naturally bent in the material of their speech to the yoke of steady precision which is only the result of a training...
Seite 49 - Phonetics is not merely an indirect strengthener of grammatical associations, it is an essential part of grammar itself. It enables us to state grammatical and philological laws with a brevity and definiteness which would be otherwise unattainable, as when we condense the information that under certain circumstances in a given language d becomes t, g becomes k, and b becomes /, into the simple statement that
Seite 156 - ... psychology, still less with those of metaphysics.^, Language is not in any way concerned with such psychological problems as the origin of our ideas of space and matter ; for at the time when language was evolved, these conceptions were already stereotyped in the form of simple ideas, incapable of any but a deliberate scientific analysis. Even such universally known facts as the primary data of astronomy have had little or no influence on language, and even the scientific astronomer no more hesitates...
Seite 171 - Swan swam over the sea; swim, swan, swim, swan swam back again, well swum swan.