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From stolfi@ic.unicamp.br  Wed Apr  6 08:59:14 2005
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:59:12 -0300
Message-Id: <200504061159.j36BxCeo016173@manaus.ic.unicamp.br>
From: Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@dcc.unicamp.br>
To: "Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au>
Subject: [Piraha] Talked to Charlotte...


Hi Jacques,

YEsterday, between two meetings, I managed to ask Charlotte about Pirahã.

As expected, she said that her advising was chiefly confined to the
second part of the thesis, where Pirahã is used as an example to
discuss some Chomskian theory or whatever. As for the first half, the
Pirahã grammar proper, she apparently trusted Daniel, without
checking.

She does not know of any independent studies, but directed me
to another IEL professor --- Filomena Sandalo, <sandalo@iel.unicamp.br>
--- who did her master's thesis under (or in collaboration with) Daniel.
I checked her official publications list 

  http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4787734H5

and found only one item about Pirahã:

  SANDALO, F. Glides e Nasalização em Pirahã, Capanahua e Sateré. 
  In: II Congresso Nacional de Fonética e Fonologia, 1986, Brasília, 1986.
  Palavras-chave: nasalização; fonologia gerativa padrão.
  
Her later works are about Portuguese and some languages of the Chaco region
(hundeds of km west of the Pirahã region).  Her turf seems
to be phonetics rather than grammar.

Dr. Charlotte is such a nice and respectable lady, I just could not
dare ask her opinion on trilled bilabial africate plosives (or whatever)...

All the best,

--stolfi