This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ..." don't one" or " any one of you look," etc. Later he may use something like this: "Either one of you must not look," etc. "Neither of you" is the culminating point in the evolution of this particular expression. The as if and as though constructions give trouble at the outset. Like is used very generally in their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ..." don't one" or " any one of you look," etc. Later he may use something like this: "Either one of you must not look," etc. "Neither of you" is the culminating point in the evolution of this particular expression. The as if and as though constructions give trouble at the outset. Like is used very generally in their stead. "He walks like he was lame," "My tooth feels like it was loose," "It feels like it was summer," are typical illustrations of these constructions. 7. Summary 1. The child is the heir of all the ages of linguistic evolution, but his heritage is of the nature of social, not of physical, heredity. 2. The content of any word, as "virtue," differs to a greater or Jess extent in different minds, though there is a general and basal meaning which it has for all persons who have any knowledge of it. 3. The child assigns special, concrete meaning to many abstract symbols he sees or hears, if he reacts upon them at all. Or else their significance is felt in only a very general way. 4. Concrete terms commonly have too broad extent; and again they may in some cases be too narrowly limited in extent. 5. With the novice, it is probable that his mental processes and his linguistic ability do not develop precisely parallel. But with development, the character of the individual's expression becomes a more faithful index of his thought. 6. The reaction of the alter is one of the most potent factors in bringing the child's interpretation and employment of symbols into accord with the usage in his community. There is a process of social selection in linguistic evolution somewhat like natural selection in biological evolution. 7. The child's vocabulary resembles a growing organism. At...
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