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Clicks and the idea of a human protolanguage

@inproceedings{Traunmller2003ClicksAT,
  title={Clicks and the idea of a human protolanguage},
  author={Hartmut Traunm{\"u}ller},
  year={2003}
}
In an earlier experiment, the effect of the speech rate of a short preceding or following context was manipulated in addition to the duration of a V, C or VC-sequence that carried a quantity distin ... 
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