Modern Languages in EducationC. W. Bardeen, 1886 - 40 pages |
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Page 7 - ... equally great difference between the rapidity and precision of mental action which are required in order to formulate a sentence in rapid conversation, and those which are necessary in order to write out deliberately, when seated at a desk, with grammar and dictionary at hand, a sentence in Latin and Greek composition. "Thus, in order to understand a spoken sentence, in the first place, the hearer must rapidly and almost unconsciously separate the succession of sounds in a sentence into individual...
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Page 7 - ... into individual words ; for in all spoken languages there is little if any more separation of sound recognizable to the ear between the words of a sentence, than between the syllables of a word. This difficulty is greatly increased in those languages where the final consonant is often carried over and pronounced with the following word. After having recognized the separate words in the spoken sentence, the hearer must recognize the stems of the words and the influence of terminations, prefixes...
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