
Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part I [6.6.13]
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The Importance of Creativity in Language
The Pinaanha language didn't have recursion and Chomsky believed all languages had recursion. Daniel Everett had a chance to go back and bring colleagues with them to test this theory that was basically a Chomsky theory. But most of the archeologists in linguists in Brazil were Chomsky. And they assumed, quite accurately, that the Armadillo had suffocated there.
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