[...] under the stress of emotion [...] we do involuntarily give utterance to sounds that the hearer interprets as indicative of the emotion itself [...] The [...] utterance is indeed instinctive, but it is non-symbolic [...] - Sapir (1921), a pag.4 [...] modified forms of the instinctive utterance that man shares with the lower animals, cannot be considered as forming part of the essential cultural conception of language [...] - Sapir (1921), a pag.39
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