1. Daniel Leonard Everett was born on July 26,1951 and is an American linguist and author best known for his study of the Amazon basin's Piraha people and their language.
16 Facts About Daniel Everett
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From July 1,2010, to June 30,2018, Daniel Everett served as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley.
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Daniel Everett has taught at the University of Manchester and the University of Campinas and is former chair of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pittsburgh.
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Daniel Everett was raised near the Mexican border in Holtville, California.
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Daniel Everett's father was an occasional cowboy, mechanic, and construction worker.
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Daniel Everett's mother was a waitress at a local restaurant.
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Daniel Everett played in rock bands from the time he was 11 years old until converting to Christianity at age 17, after meeting missionaries Al and Sue Graham in San Diego, California.
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At age 18, Daniel Everett married the daughter of these missionaries, Keren Graham.
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Daniel Everett completed a diploma in Foreign Missions from the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago in 1975.
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Daniel and Keren Everett subsequently enrolled in the Summer Institute of Linguistics, which trains missionaries in field linguistics so that they can translate the Bible into various world languages.
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Since 1999, Daniel Everett's stays in the jungle have included a generator-powered freezer, and a large video and DVD collection.
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Daniel Everett had some initial success learning the language, but when SIL lost their contract with the Brazilian government, he enrolled in the fall of 1978 at the University of Campinas in Brazil, under the auspices of which he could continue to study Piraha.
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On one of his research missions in 1993, Daniel Everett was the first to document the Oro Win language, one of the few languages in the world to use the rare voiceless dental bilabially trilled affricate.
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Daniel Everett eventually concluded that Chomsky's ideas about universal grammar, and the universality of recursion in particular, are falsified by Piraha.
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Daniel Everett reiterates and supports Aristotle's claim that the mind is a blank slate and makes the case that the notion of the human self most compatible with the facts is the Buddhist concept of anatman.
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Daniel Everett says that he was having serious doubts by 1982 and had abandoned all faith by 1985.