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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
121
It
appears
to
me
consistent
to
believe
that
speech
appears
in
the
animal
organism
simultaneously
with
the
vocal
organs,
and
that
the
desire
of
expression
must
have
preceded
this.
[Sidenote:
PRESENT
CONDITION
OF
SPEECH]
The
condition
of
the
vocal
organs
depends
upon
the
type
of
speech
which
they
are
used
to
utter,
and
the
speech
depends
upon
the
quality
of
thought
it
is
intended
to
express.
That
type
of
speech
used
by
the
Caucasian
race
within
the
space
of
a
few
centuries
has
developed
from
a
vocabulary
limited
to
a
few
thousand
words
into
the
polished
languages
of
modern
Europe,
comprising
new
types
and
tens
of
thousands
of
new
words,
until
to-day
our
own
language
contains
more
than
two
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
words,
very
few
of
which,
however,
if
any,
are
entirely
new.
The
phonetic
elements
on
which
is
built
up
this
huge
vocabulary
do
not
very
greatly
exceed
in
number
those
found
in
the
lowest
types
of
human
speech
in
the
world.
The
total
number
of
these
sounds
does
not
much
exceed
two
score
in
the
highest
forms
of
human
speech;
and
about
half
this
number
can
be
shown
as
the
vocal
products
of
some
species
of
the
lower
animals.
Some
philologists
claim
that
the
blending
of
consonant
and
vowel
sounds
is
the
mark
which
distinguishes
human
speech
from
the
sounds
uttered
by
the
lower
animals.
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