CHAPTER VI.

EMOTIONAL AND IMITATIVE LANGUAGE (_continued_).

Imitative Words—Human actions named from sound—Animals’ names from

cries, &c.—Musical Instruments—Sounds reproduced—Words modified to adapt

sound to sense—Reduplication—Graduation of vowels to express distance

and difference—Children’s Language—Sound-words as related to

Sense-words—Language an original product of the lower Culture 200

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