Acquiring complexity: the Portuguese of some Piraha Men
The Piraha language has been claimed to have no syntactic complexity. What happens when speakers of this language come into contact with another, more complex language? This paper reflects on the Portuguese used by a group of men of the Amazonian Piraha people. My study shows that when speaking Port...
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| Language: | English |
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Dartmouth College Library
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Linguistic Discovery |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.409 |