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We often talk about “new facts”, new discoveries in the sciences. Quite a few of these presumed new facts, however, seem to be rather old, to be part of the everyday experience of man for hundreds or thousands of years. For instance — some years ago the fact that the unborn child reacts to sound during the final four months before delivery was presented as “hot news”.
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Söderbergh, R. (1986). Keynote Address: From Communication as Language to Language as Communication. In: Lindblom, B., Zetterström, R. (eds) Precursors of Early Speech. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08023-6_2
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