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abstract accent acoustic affix agglutinative analogous analytic Anglo-Saxon articulation Athabaskan languages breath CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ Chinese Chinook classification concrete consonants correspond CRUZ The University culture dative dialects diphthongized distinct duckling English expression fact farmer feel formal French function fundamental fusion grammatical element Greek guage High German Hupa idea indicate individual Indo-European inflective instance instinctive isolating language Latin linguistic matter means ment merely Middle High German modified morphological nasal nature Nootka notion noun objective Old High German Paiute particular phonetic drift phonetic elements phonetic laws phonetic pattern plural position prefixes pronouns psychological purely radical element rela relational concepts Sanskrit Semitic languages sentence significance sing singular sounds speaker speech stress suffix syllables symbolic syntactic relations synthetic synthetic languages Takelma tendency tion tive Tlingit tone tongue uncon UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA verb vocalic voiced voiceless vowel Yana