On the difference between verbal and nonverbal behavior.

A C Catania
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Abstract

Language theorists have often proposed lists of the defining properties of language. This account reviews some of these and offers as an alternative a three-item list consisting of instructional control, equivalence classes, and autoclitic processes.

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