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| | Chapter Eighteen-- Sievers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | By phonetics we mean the study of the forming of speech, that is, of the production, the characteristics and the use of sounds in the forming of syllables, words and sentences, and finally of the general conditions of their change and decay. |
 | | Cautious occupation with experimental phonetic studies may now and then be useful as a preliminary step in attaining this goal, because it can occasionally clear up deficiencies in the powers of observation especially for the indifferent beginner, which have thus far gone unnoticed. |
 | | One should not, then, be content with the study of sounds per se, but must examine with equal exactitude the formation of syllables, of rhythmic units and sentences, always with one's native language as the starting point. |
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