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Daniel Leonard Everett (born July 26, 1951) is an American linguist and author best known for his study of the Amazon basin 's Pirahã people and their language . Everett is currently [when?] Trustee Professor of Cognitive Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Jan 16, 2008 · Linguist Daniel Everett went to Brazil as a young Christian missionary to work with the Pirahã indigenous people. Instead of converting them, he told Liz Else and Lucy Middleton, he lost his ...
Apr 6, 2012 · The Cultural Tool. By Daniel L. Everett. Illustrated. 351 pp. Pantheon Books. $27.95. John McWhorter teaches linguistics, Western civilization and American studies at Columbia University. His ...
Jul 26, 1980 · Daniel Everett. On this date in 1951, linguist Daniel Everett was born in Holtville, Calif., to a working-class family. A voracious reader, Everett became interested in linguistics after viewing “My Fair Lady” as a high schooler. He met Keren Graham, the daughter of Christian missionaries, in high school and, at 17, became a born-again ...
Cited by. Year. Cultural constraints on grammar and cognition in Pirahã: Another look at the design features of human language. DL Everett. Current anthropology 46 (4), 621-646. , 2005. 1809. 2005. Number as a cognitive technology: Evidence from Pirahã language and cognition.
Feb 9, 2017 · At first simply by pointing to the things in the jungle around him and getting the Pirahã to name them, Everett was eventually able to master the Pirahã language. What he discovered was a method of communication so strange and unique that it sparked a fierce debate among linguists all over the world. The Pirahã language has no past or future ...
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Daniel L. Everett Edward Gibson The Pirahã language has been at the center of recent debates in linguistics, in large part because it is claimed not to exhibit recursion, a purported universal of ...
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