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Folk physiology and talking hyoids

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  1. Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA

    PHILIP LIEBERMAN

  2. Departments of Cell Biology/Anatomy and Otolaryngology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, 10029, USA

    JEFFREY T. LAITMAN & Joy S. REIDENBERG

  3. Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, USA

    KAREN LANDAHL

  4. Department of Anthropology, City University of New York, New York, New York, 10036, USA

    PATRICK J. GANNON

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LIEBERMAN, P., LAITMAN, J., REIDENBERG, J. et al. Folk physiology and talking hyoids. Nature 342, 486 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/342486a0

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