William Holder, Elements of Speech (1669)
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Date
1669
Author
William Holder Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
Elements Of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry Into The Natural Production Of Letters: With An Appendix Concerning Persons Deaf & Dumb
Publication place
London
Printer
T. N.
Publisher
J. Martyn
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
grammar
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: All Articulation is made within the mouth, from the Throat to the Lips inclusively, and is differenced partly by the Organs and several parts of Organs (already described) used in it; and partly by the manner and degree of Articulating: which later is, either by Appulse, i.e. when one of the moveable Organs toucheth, and rests upon some of those, that are Immoveable; Or else onely by inclination of the moveable Organ to the immoveable, without Appulse, the passage through the mouth remaining free and open. (p. 35)
sample: All Articulation is made within the mouth, from the Throat to the Lips inclusively, and is differenced partly by the Organs and several parts of Organs (already described) used in it; and partly by the manner and degree of Articulating: which later is, either by Appulse, i.e. when one of the moveable Organs toucheth, and rests upon some of those, that are Immoveable; Or else onely by inclination of the moveable Organ to the immoveable, without Appulse, the passage through the mouth remaining free and open. (p. 35)
Alston
III.ii.779
Wing
H2386
Other editions
1677: Wing H2387 (Alston III.ii.780)
Facsimiles
Scolar Press (1967) Holder, William. Elements of Speech, 1669. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 49. Menston: Scolar Press, 1967. view record
Criticisms
Abercrombie, David. "William Holder and Other 17th-century Phoneticians." Historiographia Linguistica 20.2/3 (1993): 309-30. view record
