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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ... who by accident get a habit of quantity, are entirely free from the fault of lengthening the consonants. With reference to quantity, consonant elements may be submitted to the following classification. 1. Those which produce entire occlusion, as P, T, K. These never perceptibly increase the time of syllables. Their utterance is a mere point of sound, as a-, o-p, a-c, t-le, p-e, c-le. 2. Those which consist of mere aspiration, as /, s, h, wh, th, sh, ch, can be extended, but they are a bad material for time, and ought to be uttered as short as possible, without rendering their enunciation indistinct. The following are specimens of their combination with other elements, as fle, so, os, horse, wheat, thin, truth, shun, ash, church. 3. Those which soon produce occlusion, but are first vocal in the throat, are susceptible of some quantity; though not of the longest. They are b, d, g, and are heard in orb, aid, egg. 4. Those which are vocal without occlusion, are all susceptible of extension, and are proper subjects of quantity in certain combinations, with other elements: they are I, m, n, r final, and ng; the trilled r with which syllables commence, does not admit of much quantity; a single slap of the tongue, so as to make the trill manifest, is sufficient; a farther continuation of it is disagreeable and affected. The words, all, aim, own, song, war, will display the quantity of these elements. 5. Some of those elements, which are partly vocal, and partly aspirate, have quantity in certain combinations, while others rarely, if ever, admit of it. The vo I am indebted to Dr. Fitch, Professor of Divinity, in Yale College, for the suggestions which led to this classification. cal aspirates are, v, z, y, w, th, th as in th-ou, zh in a-z-ure. Of these, ..
