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Historical Documents

If you're fascinated with the history of ideas in relation to linguistics, you'll be interested in these free, newly-designed, ebooks of original documents published from the 1880s onwards.

Please note: these publications are mostly antiquated curiosities, noteworthy mainly for their historical value and not as scientific references to be consulted for 21st Century speech therapy information and resources.

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On the Evolution of Language

On the Evolution of Language

by JOHN WESLEY POWELL

1881

Lectures on Language
Lectures On Language

by WILLIAM STEVENS BALCH
1838

English as She is Wrote

English as She is Wrote
 

by ANONYMOUS

1883

Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech

Language
 

by EDWARD SAPIR

1921

Stammering: Its Cause and Cure
Stammering: Its Cause and Cure

by BENJAMIN NATHANIEL BOGUE

Note: comes with a warning!

1929



 

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"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves."

- John Locke