[The author argues that Hittite is not a continuation of Indo-European, but that both Indo-European and Hittite are developments of one and the same language, which he terms Indo-Hittite. The basis of the argument is that there are a number of phenomena in which Hittite is more archaic than Indo-European.]

[After separation from IE Hittite and Tocharian must have constituted for some time a dialectic unity, because they possess in common certain innovations. These are summarized near the close of the article.]

[This inscription, first published by Herzfeld, is by far the longest and most important inscription of Xerxes, containing new OP words and idioms, and giving considerable historical information, in which it confirms Herodotus's account of the accession of Xerxes. But Herzfeld is wrong in interpreting it as showing that Darius, after making Xerxes co-regent, actually abdicated the throne.]

[Continuation of the work published in LANG. 6.1-24 (1930). References to the Brut are to volume, page, and line of Madden's edition.]

[It has frequently been suggested that a rise in cord tone is accompanied by changes in the position of the superglottal organs of speech, but the nature and extent of these modifications have not been systematically studied. This paper presents the results of an X-ray investigation of the changes which take place in the articulation of a vowel when it is pronounced first on a low pitch and then on a high pitch.]