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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: Invention of Language (Whittet)
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In article <56oqql$bgq@scream.auckland.ac.nz>,
 <drc@antnov1.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>Steve, your reading of the ape-language literature has evidently
>not been very careful. 

	[numerous other criticisms of him on ape language deleted...]

>2) You speak of apes forming "complex sentences". Again, the material I have
>seen claims at most that they have produced sentences of two or three words.
>These may be sentences, but they are certainly not "complex" in the grammatical
>sense -- i.e. containing more than one clause. 

	And what form do they take? Are they simple adjective-noun 
phrases? Or anything more than that?

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