The argument presented by Dan Everett is the Pirahã laguage is shaped by a cultural obsession to focus on the present. This, he claims in direct contradiction to one of Noam Chomsky, leads to a lack of recursion in the language.
Chomsky's claim is described here (see 4:49). This idea is also discussed in the Collective Intelligence Handbook, Chapter 2, Human Computer Interactions.
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