Physically many cats are able to get pregnant as young as only six or seven months old. However, it is better and healthier for pregnancy to occur when they're a little older. Often younger cats are not good mothers; the maternal instinct seems to be better developed when they're one year or older.
Initially, all modern linguistics was historical in orientation. Even the study of modern dialects involved looking at their origins. Ferdinand de Saussure 's distinction between synchronic and diachronic linguistics is fundamental to the present day organization of the discipline.
Oral History: Defined. Oral history is a field of study and a method of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events. Oral history is both the oldest type of historical inquiry, predating the written word, and one of the most modern, initiated with tape recorders in the 1940s and now using 21st-century digital technologies.