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Rounding 26
Regions of Articulation 26
Articulatory Classification of Speech Sounds 28
Speaking by Inspiration 29
Clicks 30
Boundary between Vowels and Consonants 30
Affricates 31
Aspirates 32
Transition from Voice to Breath; Lenes 33
Liquids and Nasals as Vowels or Consonants 34
Sounds in Connected Speech; Glides; "Svarabhakti" Sounds 35
Sandhi Rules 37
Sound Systems 38
Psychological Phonetics 39
Other Psychological Features of Speech Sounds 41
The Acousticist's Viewpoint 43
The Geneticist's Viewpoint 44
General Properties of Sounds 47
Pitch 47
Acoustic Coloring 48
Timbre 49
Stress 51
Duration 52
The Syllable 53
The Need for a Theory of the Syllable 53
The Stress Theory 54
The Sonority Theory 55
The Theory of Buccal Opening and Closing Procedures 62
The Syllable as an Artificial Construction 66
The Syllable as a Metrical Phenomenon 66
The Syllable as a Physiological Phenomenon 67
Loose and Close Contact of Vowels and Consonants 67
Doubling of Consonants 69
Diphthongs 69
CHAPTER II

MEANING
Meaning in Genera 171
Approaches to the Study of Meaning 71
External and Psychological Contexts 72
Properties of a Psychological Context 73
1. Relationship between Facts 73
2. Frequency of Experience 74
3. Uniformity of Occurrence 74
Abstraction 75

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Publication Information: Book Title: Language and Languages: An Introduction to Linguistics. Contributors: Willem L. Graff - author. Publisher: D. Appleton. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1932. Page Number: xii.
    
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