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It is only through their written forms that we know anything at all about certain languages, and the written forms of others serve to confirm the findings of diachronic linguistics in positing the pronunciation and sources of long-dead tongues.
Yet this is but one aspect of gender and linguistics, a subject that has its own conferences, bibliographies, and college courses.
The term taboo in linguistics means, simply, `proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable' [RHD2] , but Jay prefers the narrow, somewhat archaic, anthropologist's definition that focuses on “supernatural” and “ritualistic” interdiction.
7. human speech: formal public worship:: linguistics:?
Ladefoged, Professor of Phonetics Emeritus at the University of California, and Maddieson, Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, ibid ., are well known for their work in phonetics.