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Review of “The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth” by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Author(s): Catherine A. Callaghan ¹
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Source: Diachronica, Volume 17, Issue 2, Jan 2000, p. 439 - 445
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.17.2.09cal

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