U.S.-Brazil Cooperative Research: Cross Cultural and Cross Linguistic Investigations of Deduction and Quantification

O‘Brien0071808这项美国和巴西的提案支持纽约州立大学巴鲁克学院的David P.O’Brien博士和Patricia J.Brooks博士与累西腓伯南布哥联邦大学的Antonio Roazzi教授和Maria G.Dias教授以及巴西隆多尼亚联邦大学的Wany Sampaio博士就思维语言的跨文化和发展视角进行合作。美国国家科学基金会的发展和学习科学项目提供共同资助。这个项目涉及调查美国和巴西不同年龄的人的推理能力，他们说英语、葡萄牙语和图皮卡瓦希布方言。它还将考察以不同方式学习语言的人的推理技能--口语识字者、口语文盲和聋人。尤其重要的是，计划对亚马逊盆地西南部一个最近发现的土著部落Amondawa部落的成员进行调查，该部落于1986年首次与外部世界接触。在此之前，这是一个石器时代的狩猎者/采集者群体。(由于隆多尼亚联邦大学的瓦尼·桑帕约博士的参与，这部分研究将成为可能。桑帕约博士在过去六年里一直在研究这一群体的语言。)

O'Brien0071808This US-Brazil proposal provides support for Drs. David P. O'Brien and Patricia J. Brooks of CUNY Baruch College to work with Professors Antonio Roazzi and Maria G. Dias at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in Recife and Dr. Wany Sampaio of Universidade Federal de Rondonia in Brazil, on cross cultural and development perspectives on the language of thought. NSF's Developmental and Learning Sciences Program is providing co-funding.This project involves the investigation of reasoning skills of people of different ages, in the U.S. and Brazil, who speak English, Portuguese, and Tupi Kawahib dialect. It also will examine the reasoning skills of speakers who have learned language in diverse ways - oral literate, oral illiterate, and deaf. Of particular importance is the planned investigation of members of a recently discovered indigenous tribal group in the southwestern Amazon Basin, the Amondawa, which had its first contact with the outside world in 1986. Before that, it was a stone-age hunter/gatherer group. (This portion of the research will be possible because of the participation of Dr. Wany Sampaio of the Federal University of Rondonia, who has been studying the language of this group for the past six years.)