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The Speech of Monkeys
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R. L. Garner
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I
do
not
think
that
their
language
is
capable
of
shaping
sentences
into
narrative
or
giving
any
detail
in
a
complaint,
for
I
have
never
seen
anything
yet
among
them
which
would
justify
one
in
ascribing
to
them
so
high
a
type
of
speech;
but
in
terms
of
general
grievance
it
may
have
conveyed
to
Puck
the
idea
of
a
monkey
in
distress,
and
hence
his
desire
to
avoid
it;
while
the
image
in
the
glass
presented
to
him
a
picture
of
his
own
mood,
and
he
therefore
had
no
cause
to
shun
it.
I
do
think,
however,
that
the
present
form
of
speech
used
by
monkeys
is
developed
far
above
a
mere
series
of
grunts
and
groans,
and
that
some
species
among
them
have
a
much
more
copious
and
expressive
form
of
speech
than
others.
From
many
experiments
with
the
phonograph,
I
am
prepared
to
say
with
certainty
that
some
have
much
higher
phonetic
types
than
others.
I
have
traced
some
slight
inflections
which
I
think
beyond
a
doubt
modify
the
values
of
their
sounds.
I
find
that
some
monkeys
do
not
make
some
of
these
inflections
at
all,
although
the
phonation
of
a
species
is
generally
uniform
in
other
respects.
In
some
cases
it
seems
to
me
that
the
inflections
differ
slightly
in
the
same
species,
but
long
and
constant
association
seems
to
unify
these
dialects
in
some
degree,
very
much
the
same
as
like
causes
blend
and
unify
the
dialects
of
human
speech.
I
have
found
one
instance
in
which
a
Capuchin
had
acquired
two
sounds
which
strictly
belonged
to
the
tongue
of
the
white-faced
Cebus.
I
was
surprised
when
I
heard
him
utter
the
sounds,
and
thought
at
first
that
they
were
common
to
the
speech
of
both
varieties;
but
on
inquiry
I
found
that
he
had
been
confined
in
a
cage
with
the
white-face
for
nearly
four
years,
and
hence
my
belief
that
he
acquired
them
during
that
time.
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