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March 21, 2016

The linguistics of signifying time: The human gesture as clock
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2016
A new scientific study documenting the linguistic practices of the Northwestern Amazonian peoples uncovers an unusual method of communicating the human concept of time. The study, "Modally hybrid grammar? Celestial pointing for time-of-day reference in Nheengatu", by Simeon Floyd of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, was published in the March, 2016 issue of the scholarly journal Language. The article examines how the Nheengatu language includes both auditory and vi ... read more

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