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I just finished reading this very interesting article about Pirahã which seems nearly impossible for non-native speakers to learn. The article is about how it m
by nielsbot 6y ago
I just finished reading this very interesting article about Pirahã which seems nearly impossible for non-native speakers to learn. The article is about how it may lack recursion, which Chomsky originally proposed as the key unique feature of human language which now seems to be the generally accepted view.
[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interpreter-2 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interprete...]
(I am not a linguist)
(discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26868259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26868259)