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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Alexander Melville Bell
Alexander Melville Bell*
Affiliation:
Washington, D. C.
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Extract

I congratulate the Modern Language Association on the establishment of a section which is as indispensable to language as the character of the Prince of Denmark is to the play of Hamlet. Language lives in sound; and the study of modern languages is the study of the spoken tongues.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , 1890 , pp. 23 - 32
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1890

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