Re: Sapir-WhorFreakiness

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > (If it's a gentic defect, children fathered by river traders will lack at
> least
> > one allele of it, and potentially pass it on to half-caste children of
> their
> > own, who'd lack it entirely. What would happened to a child with normal
> innate
> > linguistic capacity growing up in a society where everyone else, in effect,
> is
> > linguistically challenged?)
>
> Unless it's (shudder) dominant.
That's why I constructed a case where we'd have a child with two normal alleles,
one from the father, and one from the maternal grandfather (these being assumed
to be non-Pirahã river-traders). The mother will be challenged or not depending
on dominancy, but the child cannot be.

                                                        Andreas