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The English CowpathMonday, December 12, 2016. The Kingdom of Speech. I just read a strange book on linguistics called The Kingdom of Speech. By Tom Wolfe, published August 2016. I don't recall buying it, it must have been a $1 Kindle special or something. And have done so long before I even knew there was a name for it. Recursion, according to Chomsky (according to Wolfe), is what separates language from communication among other animals. However one thing the Piraha language did not have is recursions. Every sentence ...
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