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Language and cognition: The interesting case of subjects “P”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Irene M. Pepperberg
Irene M. Pepperberg
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[email protected]; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 1994 , pp. 359
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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