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Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Origins of Complex Language. An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth

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Hinzen, W. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Origins of Complex Language. An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth . Linguistics and Philosophy 26, 765–780 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:LING.0000004696.34349.d0

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