Title: Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0262161117
ISBN 13: 9780262161114
Binding: hardcover
Condition: New
Weight: 28 ounces

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In tackling a learning paradox that has challenged scholars for more than a decade, Pinker synthesizes a vast literature in linguistics and psycholinguistics and outlines explicit theories of the mental representation, learning, and development of verb meaning and verb syntax.

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Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. His books The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, and The Better Angels of Our Nature have won numerous prizes.

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