For this Wednesday’s (2/9), please read chapters 10 and 19 of your Language Myths textbook.  Both of these chapters are concerned with the question whether some languages are more complex than others.

As an extra bonus, you might enjoy listening to the podcast entitled “There are no primitive languages” from Monica Macauley (a linguist at University of Wisconsin-Madison), which addresses the same issues.  A link to the podcast can be found on the following webpage:

http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~awanner/podcasts/podcasts.htm