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| Dan Everett |
September 16
1940: Benjamin Lee Whorf submits his article “Linguistics as an exact science” to Technological Review.
1991: George Miller is awarded the National Medal of Science by American President George Bush Sr.
1994: On the Linguist List, Dan Everett announces the discovery of a hitherto undocumented speech sound, a voiceless dental stop articulated simultaneously with a voiceless bilabial trill. He came across the sound in the Amazonian languages Wari’ and Pirahã.
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