Tribo desafia teoria de Chomsky de uma Gramática Universal

The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few”—terms of quantification believed by some linguists to be among the common building blocks of human cognition.

The Interpreter: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

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