The pharyngometer sends sound waves down the throat noting its cross-sectional area and areas of constriction.

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The phenomenon cannot be described, she pointed out, by talking about individual changes in transformational rules or whatnot: Rather, it must be described as a metacondition on the way the grammar of a language as a whole will change.

The voice of the auctioneer is slow and low […] ; after a pause, which seems no silenter than the rest of the transaction, he ceases to repeat the bids, and his fish, in the measure of a bushel or so, have gone for a matter of three shillings.