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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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Words
are
the
factors
of
speech
and
the
highest
development
of
that
faculty.
A
word
may
be
composed
of
one
or
more
sounds
so
articulated
as
to
preclude
any
interval
of
time
between
the
utterance
of
any
two
of
them,
as
"tune,"
in
which
the
sounds
appear
to
overlap
and
blend
into
each
other.
A
single
word
may
signify
more
than
a
single
thing,
and
sometimes
will
suggest
to
the
mind
a
category
or
group
of
connected
thoughts,
as
"eat"
or
"telegraph,"
and
such
is
the
value
of
many
of
our
words.
This
is
especially
true
of
words
which
combine
two
roots;
but
such
a
combination
is
usually
found
only
in
the
higher
types
of
human
speech.
But
in
these
higher
types
words
bear
such
relations
to
each
other
that
we
cannot
well
convey
a
complete
idea
with
a
single
word;
and
hence
it
is
that
in
the
modes
of
expression
used
by
man,
each
separate
statement
consists
of
two
or
more
words
bearing
certain
relations
to
each
other,
and
these
are
often
qualified
by
other
words
of
less
importance.
This
redundancy
is
due
to
the
higher
and
more
complex
modes
of
thought
used
by
man;
and
it
is
on
such
a
state
of
facts
that
we
have
founded
that
branch
of
science
called
grammar,
which
would
be
of
little
use
among
those
forms
which
occupy
the
planes
of
life
inferior
to
man,
and
it
is
found
of
little
use
among
the
lower
tribes
of
man,
where
it
does
not
exist
in
any
written
form.
Grammar
does
not
make
language,
but
serves
as
a
kind
of
anchor
by
which
the
dialects
of
human
speech
are
somewhat
unified
and
made
more
stable;
and
to
this
is
due
in
some
measure
the
fact
that
savage
tongues
and
dialects
are
more
susceptible
to
change
in
their
structure,
while
the
phonetic
basis
upon
which
they
rest
remains
the
same.
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