[61]. Preyer’s boy first used consonants in the combinations tahu, gö, (rööö = the French eu), op. cit., p. 366; cf. Cap. 21.
[62]. The nature of gesture, its relation to language proper, and its prevalence in infancy, among imbecile children, deaf-mutes, etc., are discussed by Romanes, Mental Evolution in Man, chap. vi.
[63]. A charming example of pantomimic gesture on the part of a little girl in describing to her father her first bath in the sea is given by Romanes, op. cit., p. 220.
[64]. See Preyer, op. cit., pp. 353, 390, 391.
[65]. See the quotation from Lieber, in Taine’s On Intelligence, part ii., book iv., chap. i. The sign for ‘I want to eat’ is in some cases formed by a generalising process out of a sound supplied by another, as the name of a particular edible. See the example given by Preyer, op. cit., p. 362.
[66]. See Mind, vol. ii., p. 293.
[67]. See Mind, vol. ii., p. 255.
[68]. Op. cit., p. 358.
[69]. A fact that appears to tell against imitation here is that one little boy of seventeen months used the sound ‘did’n’ for anything to eat.
[70]. Quoted by Romanes, Mental Evolution in Man, p. 143.