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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
147
[Sidenote:
TRIP
TO
AFRICA]
It
is
a
part
of
my
purpose,
in
my
trip
to
Africa,
to
try
to
secure
photographs
of
the
mouths
of
the
great
apes
while
they
are
in
the
act
of
talking,
and
to
this
end
I
am
having
constructed
an
electric
trigger,
with
which
to
operate
my
photo-camera
at
long
range,
and
I
shall
try
to
furnish
to
the
eminent
author
of
"Visible
Speech"
some
new
and
novel
subjects
for
study.
CHAPTER
XXIV.
Some
Curious
Facts
in
Vocal
Growth--Children
and
Consonants--Single,
Double,
and
Treble
Consonants--Sounds
of
Birds--Fishes
and
their
Language--Insects
and
their
Language.
[Sidenote:
SOUNDS
UTTERED
BY
CHILDREN]
I
shall
take
occasion
here
to
mention
some
curious
experiments,
which
have
suggested
themselves
to
me
in
my
work
with
the
phonograph.
For
lack
of
time
and
opportunity,
I
have
not
carried
them
far
enough
to
give
exact
and
final
results;
but
it
has
occurred
to
me
that
philology
may
be
aided
by
taking
a
record
of
the
sounds
made
by
a
number
of
children
daily
through
a
period
of
two
or
three
years
from
birth.
The
few
experiments
which
I
have
tried
in
this
particular
line
are
sufficient
to
show
that
the
growth
of
speech
obeys
certain
laws
in
the
development
of
vocal
power.
It
is
apparent
to
me
that
the
first
sounds
uttered
by
children
have
no
consonants,
and
that
certain
consonants
always
appear
in
a
regular
succession
and
always
single.
The
double
consonants
develop
later,
and
the
triple
consonants
appear
to
be
the
last
acquirement.
I
have
not
the
space
to
go
to
great
length
on
this
subject,
and
my
experiments
have
not
been
sufficient
to
enable
me
to
formulate
with
certainty
any
set
of
rules
by
which
the
development
of
this
faculty
is
uniformly
governed.
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