Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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... origin of language , treating such expressive sounds as the fundamental constituents of language in general , and considering those of them which are still plainly recognizable as having remained more or less in their original state ...
... origin of language , treating such expressive sounds as the fundamental constituents of language in general , and considering those of them which are still plainly recognizable as having remained more or less in their original state ...
Page 195
... origin in expressive sound . He fancied he could hear in it an organic radical sign desig- nating fixity , and could thus explain why st ! should be used as a call to make a man stand still . Its connexion with these sounds is often ...
... origin in expressive sound . He fancied he could hear in it an organic radical sign desig- nating fixity , and could thus explain why st ! should be used as a call to make a man stand still . Its connexion with these sounds is often ...
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... origin . A safer way of putting the theory of a natural origin of language is to postulate the original utterance of ideas in what may be called self - expressive sounds , without defining closely whether their expression lay in ...
... origin . A safer way of putting the theory of a natural origin of language is to postulate the original utterance of ideas in what may be called self - expressive sounds , without defining closely whether their expression lay in ...
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