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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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CHAPTER
XXII.
The
Phonograph
as
an
aid
to
Science--Vowels
the
basis
of
Phonation--Consonants
developed
from
a
Vowel
basis--Vowels
are
Compound--The
Analysis
of
Vowels
by
the
Phonograph--Current
Theories
of
Sound--Augmentation
of
Sounds--Sound
Waves
and
Sound
Units--Consonants
among
the
Lower
Races.
The
application
of
the
phonograph
to
my
special
work
is
really
the
discovery
of
a
new
field
of
usefulness
for
that
wonderful
instrument,
which,
up
to
this
time,
has
held
the
place
of
a
toy
more
than
that
of
a
scientific
apparatus
of
the
very
highest
importance
in
the
study
of
acoustics
and
philology.
In
many
ways
the
use
of
this
machine
is
so
hampered
by
the
avarice
of
men
as
to
lessen
its
value
as
an
aid
to
scientific
research,
and
the
Letters
Patent
under
which
it
is
protected
preclude
all
competition
and
prevent
improvements.
However,
I
have
been
able,
even
with
the
poor
machines
in
general
use,
to
discover
some
of
the
most
important
facts
upon
which
are
based
the
laws
of
phonation.
I
shall
here
attempt
to
give
in
detail
but
a
few
of
these
experiments,
as
they
are
yet
crude,
and
in
some
cases
the
deductions
therefrom
not
positively
certain.
[Sidenote:
VOICES
OF
MEN
AND
MONKEYS]
From
the
various
records
that
I
have
made
of
the
voices
of
men
and
monkeys,
I
am
prepared
to
say
that
the
difference
is
not
so
great
as
is
commonly
supposed,
and
that
I
have
converted
each
one
into
the
other.
I
would
not
be
understood
to
say
that
I
have
done
this
with
all
their
sounds,
nor
that
the
monkey's
sounds
were
converted
into
human
speech,
but
the
fundamental
sounds
of
each
were
changed
into
those
of
the
other.
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