La Fontaine, J. de, 239.
Lamb, Charles, 213.
Language, linguistics of child;
early instinctive sounds, 134, 416;
transition to true speech, 138;
imitation of sounds, 142, 147, 417;
original inventions of language signs, 145;
transformation of our sounds, 148, 419;
process of learning to speak, 154, 160;
transposition of sounds of words, 155;
reduplication of sounds, 156;
assimilation of sounds, 156;
logical side of language, 160;
first use of general signs, 161;
spontaneous extension of verbal signs, 162, 420, 440;
designation of correlative ideas, 164, 468;
formation of compound names, 167;
other inventions, 168, 182, 455, 468;
first sentences, 170, 420;
inversion of order of words, 173;
mode of expressing negation, 174, 442;
early solecisms, 176, 440;
use of pronouns, ‘I,’ ‘you,’ 178, 444;
trying to get at our meanings, 183;
word-play, 187;
stickling for accuracy of words, 189, 466.
Laughter. _See_ Fun.
Law, early struggles with, 267, 451;
devices for evading, 270;
instinctive respect for, 277, 434;
relation of custom to, 280;
child’s spontaneous extension of, 281;
his jealous insistence on, 285;
his voluntary submission to, 287.
Law-giver, the wise, 290.
Leg, child’s mode of drawing, 354;
representation of, in profile, 364;
treatment of animal’s, 375.
Liberty, respect for, in moral training, 296;
child’s love of, 473.
Lies, lying, viewed as characteristic of child, 251;
early forms of, 252, 432, 438;
permanent, 260;
contagiousness of, 261;
shrinking from, 261.
Likeness. _See_ Portrait and Similarity.
Locke, John, 9, 34, 213, 218.
Lombroso, P., 119 note, 166 note, 169, 255 note, 271 note.
Loti, Pierre, 203.
Lubbock, Sir John, 45.