PSEUDO LANGUAGE OF MONKEYS.
Concerning the supposed language of anthropoid apes, Professor Boutau has recently taken up the question and arrives at a negative result. It will be remembered that Dr. Gamier came to the conclusion that monkeys have a language analogous to human language aud express themselves by signs as well as by sounds which they emit. According to Professor Boutan, there is only a difference of degree between this and human speech and not one of kind. He observed the sounds made by a gibbon which he had captured when young, and his experiments cover more than five years. He finds that the animal can produce only spontaneous and instinctive sounds corresponding to a state of satisfaction or the like, or again to a state of uneasiness or fear, also great excitement, aud the sounds do not appear to correspond to a real language, but rather to what he calls “pseudo language.” While sounds of real language are acquired by education, those of pseudo language are purely spontaneous, and he thus differs from Dr. Garnier's conclusions.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1189, 27 December 1913, Page 4
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178PSEUDO LANGUAGE OF MONKEYS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1189, 27 December 1913, Page 4
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