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... achieved a significance on earth as great as that of gravity , chemical bonding , natural selection , or any other force of nature ( cf. Sebeok 1972 ) . The Uniqueness of Human Language One way to sum up the special characteristics of ...
... achieved a significance on earth as great as that of gravity , chemical bonding , natural selection , or any other force of nature ( cf. Sebeok 1972 ) . The Uniqueness of Human Language One way to sum up the special characteristics of ...
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... achieved best by means of a very small number of arbitrary code elements . In language the smallest of these elements are called phonemes . Phonemes are distinctive sounds that are meaningless in isolation . But when phonemes are ...
... achieved best by means of a very small number of arbitrary code elements . In language the smallest of these elements are called phonemes . Phonemes are distinctive sounds that are meaningless in isolation . But when phonemes are ...
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... achieved only by appeal to the benevolent values of the white majori- ty . It is now argued that equality can be achieved only by intensifying the political and economic pressures whose objective base already exists in the segregated ...
... achieved only by appeal to the benevolent values of the white majori- ty . It is now argued that equality can be achieved only by intensifying the political and economic pressures whose objective base already exists in the segregated ...
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Biological Evolution | 7 |
FIGURES 11 Anthropologists at Work 289 | 8 |
Population Genetics | 13 |
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