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 through correspondence or by opposition. For some are the laws of association, others of suggestion by contraries, antipathies, etc. Through all runs the general principle of coordination terminating in psychic syntheses of conceptual imagery.

A study of the physics of language, its mechanism, its functions, its groups and orders, has thrown much light on fields hitherto dark; it has broadened the scope of relativity, and it has discovered many factors heretofore unknown. The grammatical laws have been segregated as a whole and subdivided into classes. Morphology, with its diverse categories of words and syntactic relations, have been correlated and explained together with the grammatical abstractions; that is to say, with those grammatical elements which are of a conceptual nature and which emerge from the concrete elements of structure, etc.

Phonetic changes, their conditions, and the methods by which they are studied, have