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“When agents of the Turkmen secret police came up short in arrests of counterrevolutionaries in 1937-38, they filled their quota by going to the Ashgabat marketplace and rounding up all men who wore beards, on theory that they were likely to be mullahs.”

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Book:The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

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Book:The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications

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Book:The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

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