{"id":67,"date":"2009-09-18T11:04:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T15:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blogs\/lx500f09\/2009\/09\/18\/everett-nevins-pesetsky-rodrigues-on-piraha-etc\/"},"modified":"2012-05-01T22:59:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T02:59:03","slug":"everett-nevins-pesetsky-rodrigues-on-piraha-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx500f09\/2009\/09\/18\/everett-nevins-pesetsky-rodrigues-on-piraha-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Everett, Nevins, Pesetsky, Rodrigues on Pirah\u00e3, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although not really directly related to the topic of the class, there was a short discussion of the recent claims about Pirah\u00e3 made by Dan Everett, and the response formulated by Andrew Nevins, David Pesetsky, and Cilene Rodrigues. The response was to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llc.ilstu.edu\/dlevere\/docs\/currentanthroarticle.web.pdf\">Everett&#8217;s article in <i>Current Anthropology<\/i><\/a>, which can be found on Dan Everett&#8217;s web site. The response and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/pesetsky\/Nevins_Pesetsky_Rodrigues_Piraha_Exceptionality_a_Reassessment.pdf\">was recently published in <i>Language<\/i><\/a> (it is a version the same paper that I was referring to as being on <a href=\"http:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingBuzz\">LingBuzz<\/a>), and Everett has <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu\/journals\/language\/v085\/85.2.everett.pdf\">a response to the response<\/a> in the same issue of <i>Language<\/i>. (The link directs you through the BU library proxy, so you should be able to see the article from a computer on campus or connected via VPN).<\/p>\n<p>As for the discussion of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linguistic_relativity\">the Wikipedia entry<\/a> is probably as good a place as any to get an idea of what it&#8217;s about and the reactions to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although not really directly related to the topic of the class, there was a short discussion of the recent claims about Pirah\u00e3 made by Dan Everett, and the response formulated by Andrew Nevins, David Pesetsky, and Cilene Rodrigues. The response was to Everett&#8217;s article in Current Anthropology, which can be found on Dan Everett&#8217;s web &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx500f09\/2009\/09\/18\/everett-nevins-pesetsky-rodrigues-on-piraha-etc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Everett, Nevins, Pesetsky, Rodrigues on Pirah\u00e3, etc.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx500f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx500f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx500f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx500f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx500f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx500f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx500f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx500f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx500f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx500f09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}