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- Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:29 pm
- Forum: 2.6. Hypothesis Two: The Bicameral Mind | Subtopic: The Mentality of Pre-Literate & Pre-Modern Peoples
- Topic: Angry Words: Chomsky, Everett and Amazon linguistics
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Angry Words: Chomsky, Everett and Amazon linguistics
An angry dispute over linguistics and racism in the Amazon... "A former missionary discovers that the language (that the Piraha) people speak doesn't follow one of the fundamental tenets of linguistics, a finding that would seem to turn the field on its head, undermine basic assumptions about h...