IIRC the Pirahã were also the main example against Chomsky's Universal Grammar. Their grammar allegedly lacks recursive structures.
"the Pirahã have no linguistic method whatsoever for expressing exact quantity, not even ‘‘one.”": http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.727.6089&rep=rep1&type=pdf …pic.twitter.com/OqkJGS8pMv
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People get hung up on the recursion due to Chomsky etc., but the language is very unusual past just that.
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No, they get hung up on it cuz: recursion=the fastest path2eigenforms. don't need recursion for 'em; see Section VI: http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/archive/fulltexts/1817.pdf …
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Interesting. Apparently as of 2009 there were still a few hundred native Pirahã speakers.
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Sort of? They have no tense to describe things that aren't present & don't name abstractions, so it's deeper than that.
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See https://facultyoflanguage.blogspot.com/search/label/recursion … for some posts with various thoughts aired on related topics by some linguists.
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Was just re-reading Antifragile, which mentions the same phenomenon, with regard to named colours.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYpjFObtV94&lc=z12iw1mjjymvfff3323jvl2rzxm5yvrhf04at … Bingo. 0 surprise. Someone please put 'em in fMRI, PET & MEG and compare their right hemisphere with 'civilized' ppl
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