Given how difficult it was to reach (and speak directly with) the Pirahã people, even before COVID, how do you keep from getting rusty in the language?
And do you think that the introduction of certain modern technologies to the Pirahã will change/have changed fundamental aspects of their language?
Thank you for doing this AmA. It is invaluable to have a diversity of thought in academic linguistics.
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Hi Prof. Everett -
Given how difficult it was to reach (and speak directly with) the Pirahã people, even before COVID, how do you keep from getting rusty in the language?
And do you think that the introduction of certain modern technologies to the Pirahã will change/have changed fundamental aspects of their language?
Thank you for doing this AmA. It is invaluable to have a diversity of thought in academic linguistics.
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