Subitizing: Counting Without Words
Humans possess an innate ability called "subitizing", which allows us to instantly recognize quantities up to four without counting. This blog post explores how this cognitive limit shaped early grammar…
Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Humans possess an innate ability called "subitizing", which allows us to instantly recognize quantities up to four without counting. This blog post explores how this cognitive limit shaped early grammar…
Imagine a language that can express every human thought with only 12 letters. Discover the world of Rotokas, a language from Papua New Guinea with the smallest alphabet on Earth.…
Deep in the Amazon, linguist Daniel Everett encountered a language that seemed to break all the rules. His claim that Pirahã lacks recursion—a feature once thought to be the bedrock…