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Excerpt from A Manual of Phonology: Memoir 11 This manual was begun during the Spring Semester of 1952 - 3, while I was on Sabbatical Leave from Cornell University, and also the recipient of a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation, administered through the University. I wish to express my gratitude to both of those institutions, whose assistance made it possible for me to spend my time in research and writing rather than in directly remunerative activities. When first planned, what appears here was to be but the initial section of a treatise designed to cover all phases of linguistics. The size of the present volume will convince the reader, I am sure, that my original notion was hardly feasible. I hope that in due time other portions of the treatise as originally conceived may appear, but the expression of this hope must not be construed as a guarantee. My debt to my colleagues, both at Cornell and elsewhere, is of course enor mous. The bibliographical references will indicate some small portion of this debt. It would be impossible to single out, for mention here, all the individuals who have been of more direct assistance; were I to attempt such a thing, I would be bound to commit unforgivable errors of omission. However, there are several acknowledgments which must be overtly made. First: to Gordon H. Fairbanks, who has read the entire manuscript in (almost) final form. I have not always accepted his suggestions, and the book is doubtless the worse for that fact; but it is certainly the better for those which I have accepted, and no blame must attach to him for errors which remain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.