The Sentence That Never Ends
Have you ever heard the nursery rhyme about the house that Jack built, where each line adds a new layer to the story? This fascinating, never-ending quality of language has…
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The Sentence That Never Ends
Have you ever heard the nursery rhyme about the house that Jack built, where each line adds a new layer to the story? This fascinating, never-ending quality of language has…
The Language That Broke the Rules: Daniel Everett and the Pirahã Controversy
Deep in the Amazon, linguist Daniel Everett encountered a language that seemed to break all the rules. His claim that Pirahã lacks recursion—a feature once thought to be the bedrock…