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Pirahã

Postby Ciarán12 » 2012-11-11, 13:40

Have any of you read "Don't sleep, there are snakes" or anything else by Daniel Everett about the Pirahã language? It's caused a bit of a fuss in the linguistics community, challenging some of Chomsky's rules of Universal Grammar, according to Everett.

Here's a video of a Pirahã man speaking the language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHv3-U9VPAs
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Re: Pirahã

Postby RubyH » 2012-11-11, 14:06

Ciarán12 wrote:Have any of you read "Don't sleep, there are snakes" or anything else by Daniel Everett about the Pirahã language? It's caused a bit of a fuss in the linguistics community, challenging some of Chomsky's rules of Universal Grammar, according to Everett.

Here's a video of a Pirahã man speaking the language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHv3-U9VPAs

I highly doub their is no form of recursion however it could be a different type of recursion which is different from all previous types of recursion which is deffinetly no harder to explain...nor no easier to explain.
deffinetly need to also learn that language.
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Re: Pirahã

Postby language learner » 2012-11-11, 14:55

You know, subtitles are kind of useless when there is no gloss - who is the guy who uploaded the video?
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Re: Pirahã

Postby Ciarán12 » 2012-11-11, 15:29

имен wrote:You know, subtitles are kind of useless when there is no gloss - who is the guy who uploaded the video?


This is a very small, obscure language. Finding anything on it is hard enough. I'd love to get some glossed Pirahã too, so if anyone finds anything like that, post it here.

In the meantime, here's a small Pirahã dictionary, maybe you can work out some of what's being said with that.
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Re: Pirahã

Postby RubyH » 2012-11-11, 17:03

seams quite fascinating. :shock:
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Postby Lauren » 2012-11-11, 17:24

I've read Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, and it was awesome. :)
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Re: Pirahã

Postby johnklepac » 2013-02-10, 0:20

I've read a couple of articles about it.

It's a fascinating language, but I doubt I'd ever be able to learn it because of the strong phonological monotony.
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Re: Pirahã

Postby TeneReef » 2013-04-14, 1:44

It sounds a bit like a weird mix of Mandarin and Vietnamese. :hmm:
It does not sound like Guaraní (the only Amerindian language I've heard).
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Re: Pirahã

Postby johnklepac » 2013-06-24, 23:01

TeneReef wrote:It sounds a bit like a weird mix of Mandarin and Vietnamese. :hmm:

Hmm, I wouldn't have picked those two. It resembles Japanese and the Polynesian languages more, to my ears.

I'm gonna start learning about it from the scanty online articles there are on it.
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