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But, as a matter of fact, all attempts so to explain the origin of speech have been fruitless. There is no tangible evidence, historical or otherwise, tending to show that the mass of speech elements and speech processes has evolved out of the interjections. These are a very small and functionally insignificant proportion of the vocabulary of language; at no time and in no linguistic province that we have record of do we see a noticeable tendency towards their elaboration into the primary warp and woof of language. They are never more, at best, than a decorative edging to the ample, complex fabric 去书内
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    而事实上，所有试图这样来解释言语起源的努力都是徒劳。没有确凿的历史或其他方面的证据能够证明各种言语成分和言语过程是从感叹词演化而来。感叹词只是语言词汇中一个很小的且功能上无关紧要的部分；在有记录的所有时代和语言领域，我们都看不到感叹词发展成为语言的主要经纬结构的显著趋势。它们充其量都从来不过是语言这件宏大而繁复的织物的花边。

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