Note 35 — Chapter IX · THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHILD ON LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT
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Reduplications and assimilations at a distance, as in Fr. tante from the older ante (whence E. aunt, from Lat. amita) and porpentine (frequent in this and analogous forms in Elizabethan writers) for porcupine (porkepine, porkespine) are different from the ordinary assimilations of neighbouring sounds in occurring much less frequently in the speech of adults than in children; cf., however, below, Ch. XV 4.