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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- Os povos indígenas e a Nova República (Cimi 1986)
- Os sufixos verbais múra-pirahã (Sheldon 1988)
- Nomes e cosmos : onomástica entre os Mura-Pirahã (Gonçalves 1990)
- Textos indigenistas (Nimuendajú 1982)
- As tribus do alto Madeira (Nimuendajú 1925)
- Notas preliminares sôbre núcleos oracionais contrastivos em Mura-Pirahã (Heinrichs 1967)
- Contribuições das línguas brasileiras para a fonética e a fonologia (Rodrigues 1984)
- The Mura and Pirahá (Nimuendajú 1948)
- The acoustic correlates of stress in Pirahã (Everett 1998)
- Silêncio, nasalidade e laringalidade em línguas indígenas brasileiras (Rodrigues 2003)
- War of words over tribal tongue
- MPF apura presença de estrangeiro em terra indígena
- How Do You Say ‘Disagreement’ in Pirahã?
- Acquiring Complexity: The Portuguese of Some Pirahã Men (Sakel 2012)
- Oliveira, Jr., Miguel
- 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
