The Speech of Monkeys

CHAPTER XIX. Language embraces Speech--Speech, Words, Grammar, and Rhetoric 183 CHAPTER XX. Life and Consciousness--Consciousness and Emotion--Emotion and Thought--Thought and Expression--Expression and Speech--The Vocal Organs and Sound--Speech in City and Country--Music, Passions, and Taste--Life and Reason 190 CHAPTER XXI. Certain Marks which Characterise the Sounds of Monkeys as Speech--Sounds Accompanied by Gestures--Certain Acts follow certain Sounds--They acquire new Sounds--Their Speech addressed to certain Individuals--Deliberation and Premeditation--They remember and anticipate Results--Thought and Reason 200 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 208