Quasilinguistic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having, or appearing to have, certain aspects or properties of linguistics; apparently, but not actually, linguistic.

    "Following the Gardners' lead, several other scientists have trained other great apes to use a quasilinguistic communication system."

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"Following the Gardners' lead, several other scientists have trained other great apes to use a quasilinguistic communication system."

Etymology

From quasi- + linguistic.

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