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DIDOT:

JULLIEN:" Grammaire."

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1842.

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MARSH : "Lectures on the English Language" (Students'

Series).

C. H. W.

CONTENTS.

SECTION

BOOK I. INTRODUCTION. (§§ 1-42.)

1. How French is related to other languages

2. Romanic group

3. Language of Gaul divided into three periods

4. Colonization of South Gaul by the Romans

5. Civilization of the Celts .

6. Popular Latin

7. Teutonic element

8. Spread of Popular Latin.

9. First documents in Lingua Romana

10. The Normans in Gaul

11. Langue d'Oïl and Langue d'Oc

12. Dialects

13. Influence of the Church over the language

14. Best period of Old French

15. Period of confusion

16. The Italian element in French

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33. French words from Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic, etc.

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38. Influence of the TONIC ACCENT on the Formation of words

27

BOOK II-PHONOLOGY. (§§ 43-142.)

SECTION

CHAPTER II. VOWEL SOUNDS. (§§ 58-90.)

58. What is meant by a vowel sound

59, 60. Symbols employed to represent vowel sounds

61. Symbols grouped according to their sound

62. Details of the value of each symbol

63, 64. a, à,

65. e mute

66. eu, eû

88. en and em employed as prefixes

68

89. an, am, en, em, in, im, etc., in words imperfectly naturalized

69

90. en a and in

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CHAPTER III.-CONSONANT SOUNDS. (§§ 91-142.)

92. Symbols employed to represent consonant sounds

93. Symbols grouped according to their sound

94, 95. Classification of consonant sounds.

96. General rules on the consonants

98. Hiatus avoided by elision

99. Hiatus avoided by the use of a secondary form

100. Hiatus avoided by sounding the final consonant

101-103. k, g

104, 105. ch, j

106, 107. t, d.

108, 109. s, z

110, 111. p, b.

112, 113. f, v

114. r

115, 116. 7

117. m, n

118. Superfluous symbol: q

119-121. Superfluous symbol: c

122. Superfluous symbol: x

123. Superfluous symbol: w

124. Superfluous symbol: th

125. Superfluous symbol: rh

126. Superfluous symbol: ph

127. Superfluous symbol : ʼn

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

128. Scheme of consonants

129-131. LIAISON

132. cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix

133. Medial and double consonants

134. Mouillé consonants

135, 136. Mouillé l

137. Mouillé gn

138. r.

139. Aspirate h

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