A Corpus Investigation of Syntactic Embedding in Piraha
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 human language. Here, we present an analysis of a novel corpus of natural Pirahã speech that was originally collected by Dan Everett a...
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| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science,
2016-03-16T20:03:42Z.
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