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Monday, April 4, 2016

The Interpreter - The New Yorker

The Interpreter - The New Yorker



Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?

Dan Everett believes that Pirahã undermines Noam Chomsky’s idea of a universal grammar.