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	ScienceDaily: Study Of Obscure Amazon Tribe Sheds New Light On How Language Affects Perception
		Though these tasks were designed to be more difficult, Gordon hypothesizes that the uneven spacing allowed subjects to perceive the items as smaller "chunks" of 2 or 3 items that they could then match to corresponding groups.
		According to the study, performance by the Piraha was poor for set sizes above 2 or 3, but it was not random.
		Their skill levels were similar to those in pre-linguistic infants, monkeys, birds and rodents, and appeared to correlate to recent brain imaging studies indicating a different sort of numerical competence that seems to be immune to numerical language deprivation.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2004/08/040820083420.htm (1935 words)

	Jak's View From Vancouver: Brief Notices
		I'm much more fascinated by quite the opposite -- a world in which there is no need for a word for "three" or "they".
		Such is the world of the Piraha, a small group, 200 perhaps, of hunter-gatherers in the Amazonian jungles.
		A Google search leads to quite a lot of similar material on Piraha linguistics, which is great, but disappointingly little on other aspects of their lives.
	jakking.typepad.com /daily/brief_notices/index.html (5824 words)

	Billy's blog: Life of Billy Archives
		I expect I’ll post more after Monday when I’ll be spending more time sitting among the unpacked crates in my new office.
		Meanwhile, I’m at a conference trying to understand the apparent lack of recursion in Piraha syntax despite its obvious presence in the semantics of their utterances and thoughts, and keeping up with family life by email.
		Here’s part of an update from Ohna on Apoa’s first day back at school:
	blogs.pumpernickle.net /billy/life_of_billy (16335 words)

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