lexic

The same words in the same form are repeated from generation to generation, so that lexic and grammatic elements have a life that changes very slowly.

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

The languages are many and greatly diverse in their characteristics, in grammatic as well as in lexic elements.

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

Many thousand printed vocabularies, embracing numerous larger lexic and grammatic works, have been studied and compared.

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

A lexic comparison is between vocal elements; a grammatic comparison is between grammatic methods, such, for example, as gender systems.

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

A higher proportion are "dys-lexic," either learning with difficulty or learning in their own way.

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