According to Daniel Everett, the Pirahã of Brazil's Amazon rain forest, do NOT have this key feature of language:
A) morphemes.
B) verb tenses.
C) recursive phrases.
D) syntax.

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Daniel Everett's research on the Pirahã language suggests that it lacks recursive phrases, a feature considered fundamental to human language by many linguists, challenging Noam Chomsky's theory of universal grammar.

According to Daniel Everett, the Pirahã of Brazil's Amazon Rain