<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Steve Piantadosi's work is relevant to the readers of this list. (He is also part of a team beginning work on testing a number of claims regarding Piraha).<br><br>Dan Everett<br><br><br><a href="http://web.mit.edu/">http://web.mit.edu/</a><br><a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/words-count-0210.html">http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/words-count-0210.html</a><br><br>There is also an article in Nature News on this work:<br><br><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110124/full/news.2011.40.html">http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110124/full/news.2011.40.html</a><br></body></html>