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14. Rudimentary Speech |
| Bolton, Henry Carrington: The Language Used in Talking to Domestic Animals, American Anthropologist, vol. x, p. 65 and p. 97. |
| Carruth, W. H.: The Language Used to Domestic Animals, Dialect Notes, vol. i, p. 263. |
| Crew, Lena: Words and the Child, English, July, 1920, p. 379. |
| Hall, G. Stanley: Children’s Pet Names, Amer. Jour. Psychology, vol. ix, p. 368. |
| Hills, Elijah Clarence: The Speech of a Child Two Years of Age, Dialect Notes, vol. iv, p. 84. |
| Lukens, Herman T.: The Speech of Children, Jour. Am. Folk-Lore, vol. viii, p. 158. |
| Molesworth-Roberts, H.: Inarticulate Sounds (animals), English, Dec., 1920, p. 434. |
| Peters, A. H.: Man’s Speech to the Brutes, Chautauquan, vol. xxi, p. 67. |
15. The Future of the Language |
| Babbitt, Eugene H.: The Geography of the Great Languages, World’s Work, Feb., 1908. |
| Bather, F. A. (and others): Will English Become the World Language? English, Feb., 1921, p. 451. |
| Brackebusch, W.: Is English Destined to Become the Universal Language of the World? Göttingen, 1868. |
| Emerson, Oliver F.: The Future of American Speech, Dial, vol. xiv, p. 270. |
| Long, Bernard (and others): English vs. Esperanto As A World Language, English, March, 1919, p. 19. |
| Matthews, Brander: Is the English Language Degenerating? (in Essays on English; New York, 1921). |
| ——: One World-Language or Two? (in Essays on English; New York, 1921). |
| Porter, D. G.: English as a Universal Language, Jour. Society of Science, vol. xxxii, p. 117. |
| Read, Richard P.: The American Tongue, New York Sun, Feb. 26, 1918. |
| Watts, Harvey M.: Need of Good English Growing as World Turns to Its Use, New York Sun, Nov. 9, 1919. |
| Weaver, John V. A.: Serious Uses of the American Language, Double-Dealer (New Orleans), Oct., 1921, p. 143. |
16. Bibliographies of American English |
| Anon.: Bibliography of Books and Articles on American English (supplementary to the bibliography published by Gilbert M. Tucker, q. v., in Tr. Albany Institute, 1883), Dialect Notes, vol. i, p. 13. |
| Babbitt, E. H. (and others): Bibliography of Books and Articles on American English, Dialect Notes, vol. i, p. 344. |