Deadly Reckoning: Changes in Gurindji Children’s Knowledge of CardinalsFootnote^*

* This study was funded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Program (ELDP) under grant IPF0134 (C.I. Meakins) held through the University of Manchester; and by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language under grant CE140100041.

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