How Long to Read Introduction to the Science of Language

How Long Does it Take to Read Introduction to the Science of Language?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 33 minutes to read Introduction to the Science of Language by A. H. Sayce

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

First published in 1900, this was the first of two volumes of the magnum opus from pioneer assyriologist and linguist Rev. Archibald Sayce and provided an introduction to theories on the nature, behaviour and development of languages along with the morphology and physiology of speech. In it, Sayce was the first to emphasize the principle of partial assimilation and the linguistic principle of analogy. This 4th edition, ten years after the first, reflected on the limitations of science revealed since 1890, in an era when languages, like other humanities subjects, still idealised scientific approaches. Archibald Henry Sayce was one of the greatest comparative linguists of the time, being proficient in Accadian, Arabic, Cuneiform, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew, Hittite, Japanese, Latin, Persian, Phoenician, Sanscrit and Sumerian. He had a good knowledge of every Semitic and Indo-European language and could write good prose in at least twenty languages. Sayce's first major contribution to scholarship was a highly significant translation of an Accadian seal, a 'bilingual text' from which to translate cuneiform, similar to the Rosetta Stone. Here then, no doubt, the reader learns from a master of comparative linguistics.

How long is Introduction to the Science of Language?

Introduction to the Science of Language by A. H. Sayce is 445 pages long, and a total of 113,475 words.

This makes it 150% the length of the average book. It also has 139% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Introduction to the Science of Language Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 20 minutes to read Introduction to the Science of Language aloud.

What Reading Level is Introduction to the Science of Language?

Introduction to the Science of Language is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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