Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language.

PINKER, Steven.

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ISBN 10: 0465072690 ISBN 13: 9780465072699

Published by Basic Books,, NY:, 1999

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Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language.

Publisher

Basic Books,, NY:

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0465072690

ISBN 13

9780465072699

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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Fine

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Near Fine

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Who other than MIT scientist Steven Pinker could explore a single linguistic phenomenon - the use of irregular verbs - from the vantage points of psychology, biology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and child development?In Words and Rules , Pinker answers questions about the miraculous human ability called language and does it in the gripping, witty style of his other bestsellers. As the stories unfold, the reader is immersed in the evolution of the English language over the centuries, the theories of Noam Chomsky and his critics, the simulation of neural networks on computers, the illuminating errors of children as they begin to speak, the tragic loss of language from neurological disease, and more illustrations using humorous wordplay than anyone would have thought possible. Pinker makes sense of all these phenomena with the help of a single powerful idea: that the essence of language is a mental dictionary of memorized words and a mental grammar of creative rules.Pinker is well known for his skills of explaining the art and science of language. His bestselling book How the Mind Works was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and was the #1 bestselling book for amazon.com in 1997. His other bestseller The Language Instinct was named one of the Ten Best Books of 1994 by The New York Times Book Review and nominated for the William James Book Award by the American Psychological Association.

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Steven Pinker is Professor in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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