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Piraha Exceptionality: a ReassessmentThe Pirahã were discussed here a couple of times, in the context of the linguistic relativity hypothesis (Sapir-Whorf). One of the controversial claims about the Pirahã language was that it lacked recursion (which is found in all human languages, and is seen as an essential feature of human language). This paper by Andrew Ira Nevins, David Pesetsky, and Cilene Rodrigues attempts to refute many of the fantastic claims about Pirahã, and includes a detailed argument against the claims about the lack of syntactic recursion and embedding (to get to the full text, click on the title at the top of the page). |
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