Does Language Shape What We Think?
| By Joshua Hartshorne (Scientific American, August 18, 2009). "In a paper published in 2008, MIT cognitive neuroscientist Michael Frank and colleagues demonstrated that Pirahã, a language spoken by a small Amazonian community, has no number words at all. The research team simply asked Pirahã speakers to count different numbers of batteries, nuts and other common objects. […] The lack of number words had a profound and surprising effect on what the Pirahã could do."
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- You Can't Do the Math Without the Words: Amazonian Tribe Lacks Words for Numbers
- Pronoun borrowing (Thomason & Everett 2001)
- Sakel, Jeanette
- Pirahã
- Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory
- Letras de Hoje
- Lost Languages
- Linguists doubt exception to universal grammar
- The Interpreter
- The Language of the Piraha
- Living without Numbers or Time
- Após trabalho com índios no Amazonas, missionário evangélico vira cientista ateu
- A lingua Pirahã e a teoria da sintaxe: descrição, perspectiva e teoria (Everett 1983)
- Aspectos da fonologia do Pirahã (Everett 1979)
- God is singing the song of the Piraha