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Language and species

By Derek Bickerton, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1990,x+297 pp., $24.95 (hardcover).

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McNeill, D. Language and species. International Journal of Primatology 13, 575–583 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02547834

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