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SEEING that in ancient German, or rather Gothic, Swedish, Danish, probably in French, and possibly in Sardinian, the th sound surviving in English (though much less frequent than it used to be) was once largely used, but nowadays Frenchmen and Germans find a difficulty with it, I should like to know whether systematic experiments have been made as to whether children of various ages of these two nationalities can pronounce it more exactly and spontaneously than their compatriots of a maturer age? I should like to make the same inquiry concerning English children and their pronunciation of the gutturals discarded or altered in such words as night, bough or laugh?
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STUART-MENTEATH, C. Homochronous Heredity and Changes of Pronunciation. Nature 62, 524 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062524a0
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