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IT is a very remarkable fact, little known to students of human speech, that uneducated deaf mutes, even to-day, have no inborn knowledge of any sign or symbol equivalent to a word. They naturally symbolize their ideas by a general pantomime describing events as a whole. They have not got the power of analysing their environment into separate categories of objects, actions, qualities, etc., or of symbolizing such separate elements by bodily signs equivalent to our spoken words.
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PAGET, R. Speech and Civilization. Nature 141, 882–883 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141882a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141882a0