[111]. The same double tendency from weak to strong forms and vice versâ is seen in the list of transformed past participles given by Preyer, op. cit., p. 360.
[112]. Cf. Preyer’s account of a German child’s liberties with the same verb, where we find ‘gebisst,’ ‘binnst,’ and other odd forms, op. cit., p. 438.
[113]. Preyer (op. cit., Cap. 22) seems to argue that children have a clear self-consciousness before they attempt to use the forms ‘I,’ etc.; and that the acquisition of the latter is due to imitation. But he does not show why this imitation should begin to work so powerfully at a particular period of linguistic development.
[114]. Compare above, p. [43].
[115]. For a fuller account of this progress, the reader cannot do better than consult Preyer, op. cit., Cap. 20 and 21.
[116]. Worcester Collection, p. 21.
[117]. Cf. the account Goltz gives of the anxiety he felt as a child on hearing that his uvula (zapfen) had ‘fallen down,’ op. cit., p. 261.
[118]. In the Illustrated London News, 30th June, 1894.
[119]. Of course defective auditory apprehension may assist in these cases. Goltz gives an example from his own childhood. He took the words “Namen nennen Dich nicht” to be “Namen nenne Dich nicht,” and was sorely puzzled at the idea of bidding a name not to name itself.
[120]. Psalm cxxxix. and Second Commandment, Prayer-book version.