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Nature 438, 914 (15 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/438914d; Published online 14 December 2005
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Languages: land may speak louder than words
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Your News Feature "Tongue tied" (Nature 438, 148–149; 2005) shows that field linguists often attempt to save indigenous languages and the information embedded in them by gathering words into dictionaries and grammar texts. This process has an underlying assumption that words mean 'things', and that, once saved, they can be reassembled with the proper grammar to represent experiences.
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