Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure

Pinker, Steven

ISBN 10: 0262161117 / ISBN 13: 9780262161114

Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989

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Very good cloth copy in good dustjacket. xii, 411 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure
• Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262161117
• ISBN 13: 9780262161114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.