 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - Страниц: 432
...language owes its origin to the imitation and modification, aided by signs and gestures, of various natural sounds, the voices of other animals, and man's own instinctive cries. When we treat of sexual selection we shall see that primeval man, or rather some early progenitor of... | |
 | 1890 - Страниц: 900
...that the character of those sounds was primarily due to the " imitation and modification of different natural sounds, the voices of other animals, and man's own instinctive cries." * The mechanism of the voice is extremely simple in its general principles, though highly complex in... | |
 | 1873 - Страниц: 544
...language, which originated in " the imitation and modification, aided by signs and gestures, of various natural sounds, the voices of other animals, and man's own instinctive cries.":}: If, however, all this be true, how are we to account for the wonderful intellectual superiority of... | |
 | 1875 - Страниц: 546
...according to Mr. Darwin, " from the imitation and modification, aided by signs and gestures, of various natural sounds, the voices of other animals, and man's own instinctive cries. " He argues ' ' that primeval man, or rather some early progenitor of man, probably used his voice... | |
 | George Harris - 1876 - Страниц: 588
...language owes its origin to the imitation and modification, aided by si^ns and gestures, of various natural sounds, the voices of other animals, and man's own instinctive cries."- — Dancin't Descent of Man, vol. ip 56. 7 Sir John Lubbock refers to the difference of the sounds... | |
 | 1878 - Страниц: 916
...language owed its origin to the imitation and modification, aided by signs and gestures, of various natural sounds, the voices of other animals, and man's own instinctive cries, he says :t • Driprung der Sprache, p. 170. f Descent of Man, vol. ip 67. •As monkeys certainly... | |
 | Henry Augustus Mott - 1880 - Страниц: 184
...a mere instinctive utterance, but for the purpose of intimating to another." Darwin says that "the early progenitor of man probably first used his voice...musical cadences, that is, in singing, as do some gibbon-apes at the present day. It is therefore probable that the imitation of musical cries by articulate... | |
 | 1880 - Страниц: 808
...says : " I cannot doubt that language owes its origin to the imitation and modification of various natural sounds, the voices of other animals and man's...own instinctive cries, aided by signs and gestures." If one were disposed to be critical in respect of this plain statement of the origin of speech, such... | |
 | Henry Augustus Mott - 1880 - Страниц: 164
...There can be no question that language owes its origin to the imitation and modification of various natural sounds, the voices of other animals, and man's...own instinctive cries, aided by signs and gestures ; and this is the opinion of Max Miiller. And Prof. Whitney remarks that " spoken language began, we... | |
 | Walter Hayle Walshe - 1881 - Страниц: 194
...operatic recitative of the present day, though certainly not modulated to the same extent.2 i Primaeval man, or rather some early progenitor of man, probably...singing, as do some of the gibbon-apes at the present day ' (Darwin, Descent of Man, p. 87, ed. 1874). Of course very rudimentary cadences — for one must admit... | |
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I cannot doubt that language owes its origin to the imitation and modification of various natural sounds, the voices of other animals, and man's own instinctive cries, aided by signs and gestures. 
