2023.12.31

How Grammar Changes Perception

An Australian Aboriginal language provides unexpected insight

Aboriginal elders locate landmarks at Da Ayimeli. The culturally significant site is near Wadeye, a town close to Australia's northern coast. (Photographs by David Maurice Smith)

Aboriginal elders locate landmarks at Da Ayimeli. The culturally significant site is near Wadeye, a town close to Australia's northern coast. (Photographs by David Maurice Smith)

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