Note 65 — V. THE LITTLE LINGUIST.

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.