>How much of the material on language learning/rules etc. has been done on
>languages of a different type than English, e.g. agglutinative, or
>isolating, like Eskimo or Chinese? From what I've seen in psychology
>English speakers in general and Anglo-Americans in particular are almost
>the most hopelessly culture-bound people on the planet. (The "almost" is
>for caution's sake - there might be, I just haven't met them yet.)
I would think that all cultures are pretty much equally culture-bound.
Then again, perhaps I find it hard to imagine one particular culture being
more culture-bound than another, because my own conclusion of other
cultures being equally culture-bound is also culture bound.
As for work done on languages other than English, my one syntax class
included samples from every language I could have imagined--not to mention
that linguists from other countries no doubt work with their own languages,
too.
Charles Nelson
c.nelson who-is-at mail.utexas.edu