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-There are four villages in the tributary of the Amazon.
-It is a four day boat ride from anywhere to reach the villages.
-They have extremely limited contact with other influences, besides the measles outbreak in the 1950's where there was contact with missionaries.
-They have been very closed off to foreigners.

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- He began as a Christian missionary with his wife and children, but the people of Pirahã eventually converted him.
-He built trust with them and they took liking to him.
-He learned their language by simply starting from picking up items and repeating what was said.
- He makes bold claims that go against Chomsky's belief that have extreme negative reactions.

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-The language only has the present tense.
-This word in the same word for ear, skin, foreigner, hand, and brazil nut shell.
-There are no colors or numbers because there is no need.

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-Everett also believes he has evidence against Chomsky's universal grammar theory.
-Chomsky believes there is an aspect of grammar that is hardwired in the brain.
-The Pirahã people have had very little influence from other languages and cultures.
-They have no use of the past and future tense.

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-Chomsky believed in the theory of recursion. This is that in human language, we can combine an endless number of ideas into a single sentence.
-According to Everett, this was untrue of the language used by the Parahã people.
-They lack recursion, color, number, and tenses.

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-After Everett's publishings generated backlash, some wrote to the Brazil government accusing Everett of conducting racist experiments.
-Everett was denied by the Brazilian government to come back to the Pirahã people.
-The government began developing the area. Housing and a school were built. Here they would learn Portuegese. They even introduced them to electricity and television. This will cause many changes to the culture.

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-Everett's team begins a scientific experiment to support his claim of the lack of recursion.
-Decades worth of recordings of the language are compiled into a database. After months of MIT computers analyzing the data, there is no clear evidence of recursion.
-For example there are no words that replicate "and" or "or". There is no complex syntactical structure.

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