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I agree with David Gil that this kind of paper is not only bad and gives a poor understanding of language issues to the general public, but that it threatens to bring into disrepute legitimate research on linguistic relativity.
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<div>Caleb Everett discusses this paper briefly in his forthcoming book on linguistic relativity (based on experimental data of his own and others') from Mouton: <a href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/204331?format=EBOK">http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/204331?format=EBOK</a></div>
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<div>On Feb 26, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Hans Götzsche wrote:</div>
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<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The former chairman of the Danish Language Council, Prof Em </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Niels Davidsen-Nielsen, a specialist on the English
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<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">In that case prof Chen will - in the future - encounter some problems when trying to express his views on languages, and the rest of us will, hopefully, be able to contemplate difficult questions like what
relationship there may be between tense (aspect) and time; without being troubled with silly ideas like this one.</span></div>
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On 26/02/2013, at 17.11, "Nigel Vincent" <<a href="mailto:nigel.vincent@MANCHESTER.AC.UK">nigel.vincent@MANCHESTER.AC.UK</a>> wrote:<br>
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