...SENTENCE- AND WORD-DIVISION. The first and most obvious is the organic necessity of taking breath—we are unable to utter more than a certain number of...in succession without renewing the stock of air in our lungs, which unavoidably necessitates a pause. Speech in its simplest form consists mainly of short...

...synthesis, but we never shall be able to analyse it into separate words till we know its meaning . . . The only division actually made in language is that...without renewing the stock of air in the lungs. These breath-gronps correspond partially with the logical division into sentences: every sentence is necessarily...

...that '-' word-division postulates much thought and comparison of sentences one with another. / 93. The only division actually made in language is ( that...the lungs. These breathgroups correspond partially to the logical division into sentences : every sentence is necessarily a breathgroup, but every breath-group...

...represent the actual case." * Professor Sweet, the English philologist, in his "Primer of Phonetics" says: "The only division actually made in language is that...in succession without renewing the stock of air in our lungs. These breath-groups correspond partially to the logical division into sentences; every sentence...

...represent the actual case." ' Professor Sweet, the English philologist, in his "Primer of Phonetics" says: "The only division actually made in language is that...in succession without renewing the stock of air in our lungs. These breath-groups correspond partially to the logical division into sentences; every sentence...

...corresponds to some extent with the phonetic division into ' breath-groups', marked off through our inability to utter more than a certain number of sounds in succession without pausing to take breath. 144. Within these breath-groups there is no pause or break between the words...

...we may have to breathe twice or three times at convenient places. Hence Dr. Sweet's paradox that " every sentence is necessarily a breath-group, but...every breath-group need not be a complete sentence." What the teacher must see to is that the pupil from the very first phrases his sentences, not reading...

...represent the actual case." * Professor Sweet, the English philologist, in his "Primer of Phonetics" says: "The only division actually made in language is that...in succession without renewing the stock of air in our lungs. These breath-groups correspond partially to the logical division into sentences; every sentence...

...The late Henry Sweet, long the dean of English phoneticians, says in his Primer of Phonetics (p. 45): "The only division actually made in language is that...necessarily a breath-group, but every breath-group is not necessarily a complete sentence. Within each breath-group there is no pause whatever, notwithstanding...

...The late Henry Sweet, long the dean of English phoneticians, says in his Primer of Phonetics (p. 45): "The only division actually made in language is that...necessarily a breath-group, but every breath-group is not necessarily a complete sentence. Within each breath-group there is no pause whatever, notwithstanding...