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We're staying out of this one
There's a bit of a linguistic smackdown going on over an article published in The New Yorker about Dan Everett and his research with the Pirahã Indians, and Everett's theory that the language of the Pirahã may challenge the concept of Universal Grammar.
We're staying out of this one, but the report on the controversy at NPR is worth listening to for the sound of the Pirahã language alone. (SUZANNE)
April 25, 2007
