When Daniel L. Everett and his wife Keren Everett started spending 6 to 8 months each year with the Pirahã people of Brazil’s Amazon rain forest in 1977, they hoped to decipher a language that had ...
Dan Everett has spent 30 years studying the language of a small Amazonian tribe, the Piraha. His findings are challenging long-held linguistic theories and stirring a sometimes-bitter debate. From NPR ...
The Pirahã are an “ordinary sort of folk,” says Philip Oltermann, a contributor to the British magazine. “They enjoy chatting and socializing,” as well as “a drink or two -- not unlike your average ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. DANIEL Everett looks and talks much like the middle-aged American academic he is until he drops a strange word into the conversation. An ...
There's no language gene. There's no innate language organ or module in the human brain dedicated to the production of grammatical language. There are no meaningful human universals when it comes to ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. DANIEL Everett looks and talks much like the middle-aged American academic he is until he drops a strange word into the conversation. An ...