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The first part of this paper is based on a lecture given by E. LINDEN during the Second Conference on Language and Language Acquisition, held at Mons in 1980, The lecture itself was based on a book (in press) written by LINDEN and PATTERSON, about Koko.
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Lowenthal, F. (1982). Can Apes Tell us What Language is?. In: Lowenthal, F., Vandamme, F., Cordier, J. (eds) Language and Language Acquisition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9099-2_48
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