Re: Sapir-WhorFreakiness

Quoting "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>:

> Andreas Johansson said:
> >
> >
> > What would happened to a child with normal innate linguistic capacity
> > growing up in a society where everyone else, in effect, is
> > linguistically challenged?
>
>
> The same thing that's happened to everybody on this list.
>
> Duh.
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Well, obviously it would learn Pirahã as currently spoken. But would it to any
extent extend it, for use as an "internal" language? Stumble on the possibility
of embedding, and think "embeddedly"?

                                                      Andreas