Lab
Library
Journal
Shop
Sign in
to keep
Share image
1
188
The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
113
Another
feat
which
she
performed
was
to
try
to
remove
some
tar
from
the
cup
in
which
he
gave
her
water
and
milk.
The
cup
had
been
lined
with
tar
as
a
sanitary
measure
to
prevent
consumption,
and
she
was
aware
that
the
tar
imparted
an
unpleasant
taste
and
odour,
hence
she
tried
very
hard
to
remove
it
from
the
cup.
Was
this
instinct?
CHAPTER
XVII.
Speech
Defined--The
True
Nature
of
Speech--The
Use
of
Speech--The
Limitations
of
Speech.
[Sidenote:
SPEECH
DEFINED]
What
is
speech?
I
shall
endeavour
to
define
it
in
such
terms
as
will
relieve
it
of
ambiguity,
and
deal
with
it
as
a
known
quantity
in
the
problems
of
mental
commerce.
Speech
is
that
form
of
materialised
thought
which
is
confined
to
oral
sounds,
when
they
are
designed
to
convey
a
definite
idea
from
mind
to
mind.
It
is,
therefore,
only
one
mode
of
expressing
thought,
and
to
come
within
the
limits
of
speech,
the
sounds
must
be
voluntary,
have
fixed
values,
and
be
intended
to
suggest
to
another
mind
a
certain
idea,
or
group
of
ideas,
more
or
less
complex.
The
idea
is
one
factor,
and
sound
the
other,
and
the
two
conjointly
constitute
speech.
The
empty
sounds
alone,
however
modulated,
having
no
integral
value,
cannot
be
speech,
nor
can
the
concept
unexpressed
be
speech.
Separately,
the
one
would
be
noise,
and
the
other
would
be
thought;
and
they
only
become
speech
when
the
thought
is
expressed
in
oral
sounds.
Sounds
which
only
express
emotion
are
not
speech,
as
emotion
is
not
thought,
although
it
is
frequently
attended
by
thought,
and
is
a
cause
of
which
thought
is
the
effect.
Music
expresses
emotion
by
means
of
sounds,
but
they
are
not
speech;
and
even
though
the
sounds
which
express
them
may
impart
a
like
emotion
to
the
hearer,
they
are
not
speech.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
