[EDLING:570] RE: Sapir-Whorf

[Martin Edwardes]

Try these, from Science, 15 October 2004:

ROCHEL GELLMAN & CR GALLISTEL - Language and the origin of numerical
concepts [perhaps Whorf was right, after all...]

PETER GORDON - Numerical cognition without words: evidence from Amazonia
[more on the Piraha tribe's inability to evaluate numbers accurately]

PIERRE PICA et al - Exact and approximate arithmetic in an Amazonian
indigene group [it's not just the Piraha, the Manduruku don't make good
accountants, either]

In summary, the ability to express numbers linguistically affects the
ability to understand numbers conceptually (or culturally).

Somewhat indirectly, from Anthropology Today, October 2004:

RICHARD A WILSON - The trouble with truth: anthropology's epistemological
hypochondria [how unbiased and truthful can anthropology be?]

Martin Edwardes
http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.edwardes/


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Subject: [EDLING:568] Sapir-Whorf


Hi:

Can anyone give me some recent references about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
or language-thought connection?  Papers from any of following disciplines
would be
great:
Linguistics
Philosophy
Psychology.
I appreciate the help.

-Tamara

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University of Pennsylvania
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