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Labial trills, 53 Language: associations in, 38 , 39 ; associations underlying elements of, 10 , 11 ; auditory cycle in, 17 ; concepts expressed in, 12 ; a cultural function, 2 , 10 ; definition of, 7 ; diversity of, 21 –23 ; elements of, 24 –38 ; emotion expressed in, 39 –41 ; feeling-tones in, 41 , 42 ; grammatical concepts of, 86 –126 ; grammatical processes of, 59 –85 ; historical aspects of, 157 –204 ; imitations of sounds, not evolved from, 5 , 6 ; influences on, exotic, 205 –220 ; interjections, not evolved from, 5 ; literature and, 236 –247 ; modifications and transfers of typical form of, 17 –21 ; an “overlaid” function, 8 ; psycho-physical basis of, 8 , 9 ; race, culture and, 221 –235 ; simplification of experience in, 11 , 12 ; sounds of, 43 –58 ; structure of, 127 –156 ; thought and, 12 –17 , 232 , 233 ; universality of, 21 –23 ; variability of, 157 –165 ; volition expressed in, 39 –41 Larynx, 48 –50 Lateral sounds, 52 , 53 Latin: attribution, 101 ; concord, 121 ; infixing, 26 , 75 ; influence of, 206 , 207 , 215 , 216 ; objective -m, 119 , 120 ; order of words, 65 , 66 , 123 ; plurality, 100 ; prefixes and suffixes, 71 ; reduplicated perfects, 82 , 216 ; relational concepts expressed, 101 , 102 ; sentence-word, 33 , 36 ; sound as word in, single, 24 ; structure, 151 , 154 ; style, 243 , 244 ; suffixing character, 134 , 137 ; syntactic nature of sentence, 116 , 118 ; synthetic character, 135 , 137 ; verse, 244 , 245 , 246 ; word and element in, analysis of, 27 , 29 , 30 Lettish, 49 Leveling, phonetic, 193 , 194 , 195 . See Analogical leveling. Lips, 48 ; action of, 52 , 53 Literature, compensations in, formal, 246 , 247 ; language and, 42 , 236 –247 ; levels in, linguistic, 237 –241 ; medium of, language as, 236 , 237 ; science and, 238 –240 Literature, determinants of: linguistic, 240 , 241 ; metrical, 244 –246 ; morphological, 241 –244 ; phonetic, 241 Lithuanian, 55 , 175 , 183 Localism, 161 Localization of speech, 8 , 9 Loucheux (N. Amer.), 71 ; L. Indians, 228 Lungs, 48 Luther, German of, 192
