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launched "Romania," the most famous vehicle of 

 Romance studies. Their disciples, all over the world, 

 were the teachers of the next generation. Among their 

 contemporaries may be mentioned C. CHABANEAU, an 

 authority on French and Provencal grammar; C.THUROT, 

 who traced the development of French pronunciation; 

 and M. BREAL, who, though not primarily a Neo-Latinist, 

 did much to advance the study of the meanings of 

 Romance words. The fruits of previous researches, and 

 of his own, are embodied by F. BRUNOT in his vast and 

 still unfinished "Histoire de la langue francaise des origines 

 a 1900" (5 vols., 1906-13). Linguistic science adopted 

 novel methods under the guidance of the Abbe Rous- 

 SELOT, the founder of experimental phonetics, whose 

 great publications began in 1891; and of J. GILLIERON 

 and E. EDMONT, compilers of that enormous storehouse 

 of dialect material, the "Atlas linguistique de la France" 

 (1902-13). Much had been already garnered in the 

 "Revue des patois gallo-romans " (1887-92) and the 

 "Bulletin de la Societe des parlers de France" (1893- 

 99); the former was continued by L. CLEDAT'S "Revue 

 de philologie francaise." More general are "La Parole" 

 (1889-) and the "Revue de dialectologie romane" 

 (1909-). Brunot has in the Sorbonne building an im- 

 portant and growing collection of speech records known 

 as the "Archives de la parole." The facts revealed by 

 all these recent investigations have led to a new inter- 

 pretation of dialect phenomena, exemplified, for instance, 

 in "Les Aires morphologiques dans les parlers populaires 

 du nord-ouest de I'Angoumois" (1914), by A. L. TER- 

 RACHER. 



For the comprehensive study of mediaeval literature, 

 the way was prepared, in the Renaissance and Neo- 

 classical periods, by the collection, description, and trans- 

 lation of manuscripts; and some important attempts 



