Re: Sapir-WhorFreakiness
| From: | Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 20, 2004, 21:05 |
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Steg írta: "Weird article a friend of mine showed me...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/08/19/science.counting.reut/index.html"
Hmm. I wonder why Pirahã lacks most numbers? Some Australian aborilangs have
only the numbers 'one', 'two', and 'three'...
BTW the following paper may be of interest as well:
<http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Info/staff/DE/cultgram.pdf> - Cultural
Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã: Another Look at the Design
Features of Human Language
Cheers,
Trebor