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... speech : speech would have remained an incoherent flux of sounds , inimitable and useless . Thus a cer- tain amount of mechanical drill was essential to even the simplest speech ; and such drill must have been far more constant than ...
... speech : speech would have remained an incoherent flux of sounds , inimitable and useless . Thus a cer- tain amount of mechanical drill was essential to even the simplest speech ; and such drill must have been far more constant than ...
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... speech by way of music and ritual . Though my own development of this theme was independent of Donovan's hypothesis ... Speech Apparatus . Springfield : 1958 . An exhaustive comparative analysis of the anatomical and physiological ...
... speech by way of music and ritual . Though my own development of this theme was independent of Donovan's hypothesis ... Speech Apparatus . Springfield : 1958 . An exhaustive comparative analysis of the anatomical and physiological ...
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... Speech , acquisition of , 42 ; articulate , 8 , 73 ; bodily accompaniments of , 86 ; contribution of fire to , 124 ; debasement 89 ; early motor form of , 59 ; efficacy of , 95 ; magic property of , 83 ; necessity for , 80 ; or- ganic ...
... Speech , acquisition of , 42 ; articulate , 8 , 73 ; bodily accompaniments of , 86 ; contribution of fire to , 124 ; debasement 89 ; early motor form of , 59 ; efficacy of , 95 ; magic property of , 83 ; necessity for , 80 ; or- ganic ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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