A comparison of nonchalant innumeracy among the Pirahã of the Amazon with lack of statistical numeracy among newspaper readers and writers, at Language Log. The Pirahã appeared here earlier in "Thus I refute Chomsky."
A little more looking around reveals an earlier, more technical article at Language Log, Parataxis in Pirahã. Elmore Leonard—his syntax, anyway—makes an appearance.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Return of the Pirahã
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