Thread:User talk:Nebuchadnezzar/Neuro stuff! - pro'ly too vague to actually generate an answer. heh

My husband gave me a link to an article on the Amazon language (Pirahã) that supposedly disproves all of Chomsky, but only one person has ever learned it, and he's the one who's making the claims and being famous... It amuses me that the ONLY LANGUAGE EVER FOUND IN ALL THE EARTH THAT DOES NOT HAVE RECURRIONS!!!! is a language there is only one expert in, and anyone else who has tried to learn it, has been rebuked by the elders as not being "serious enough" students. heh. anyhow......  That led me to read more about recursion and there was a wiki article that suggests that "neurobiology is proving recursion". What things in "neurobiology" would be able to prove or disprove something like how we form sentances? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion#Recursion_in_language is what I'm looking at, near the bottom of the paragraph. "Indirect proof that Everett's ideas are wrong comes from works in neurolinguistics where it appears that all human beings are endowed with the very same neurobiological structures to manage with all and only recursive languages. For a review, see Kaan et al. (2002)"

I just don't know enough about neurolinguistics and neurobiology to know what could be proving a theory like this, one way or the other.