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Paiute (N. Amer.), (31) (32) (36) (52) (53) (69) (70)
Palate, (48) action of soft, (51) articulations of, (53)
Pali (India), (207)
Papuan languages, (227)
Papuans, (227) (230)
Parts of speech, (123-5) (126)
Pattern: formal, (61) (63) (234) (242) phonetic, (57) (58) (187) (93-6) (99) (200) (206) (211) (214) (215) (220)
Persian, (163) (207)
Person, (114)
Personal relations, (91) (92) (93) (115)
Phonetic adaptation, (210) (211)
Phonetic diffusion, (211-15)
Phonetic law: basis of, (195) (196) (199) (200) direction of, (194) (195) (199) examples of, (186-93) influence of, on morphology, (203) (204) influence of morphology on, (196-9) regularity of, (193) (194) significance of, (186) spread of, slow, (190) (191) See Leveling, phonetic; Pattern, phonetic.
Phonetic processes, form caused by, differences of, (105) (106) parallel drifts in, (184-93) (197-9)
Pitch, grammatical use of, (83-5) metrical use of, (246) production of, (49) significant differences in, (55) (64)
Plains Indians, gesture language of, (20)
“Plattdeutsch,” (224) (225)
Plurality: classification of concept of, variable, (110) (111) (112) a concrete relational category, (99) (100) a derivational or radical concept, (99) expression of, multiple, (38) (62) See Number.
Poles, (225)
Polynesian, (132) (150) (155) (227) (230)
Polynesians, (221) (222) (227) (230)
Polysynthetic languages, (130) (135) (146) (148) (150) (151)
Portuguese, (137)
Predicate, (37) (126)
Prefixes, (26) (64) (70) (71-5)
Prefixing languages, (134) (135)
Preposition, (125)
Psycho-physical aspect of speech, (8) (9)
Pure-relational languages, (145) (147) (154) (155) complex, (145) (147) (150) (155) simple, (145) (147) (150)