Words and rules: the ingredients of language / Steven Pinker
Language: English
Published by London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999
Series: Book 14 of 14 - Science Masters
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Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xi, 348 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Contents: The infinite library -- Dissection by linguistics -- Broken telephone -- In single combat -- Word nerds -- Of mice and men -- Kids say the darnedest things -- The horrors of the German language -- The black box -- A digital mind in an analog world. Summary: In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explains the mysteries of language by examining a single construction from a dozen viewpoints, positing that the essence of language is a mental dictionary of words, and a mental grammar of creative rules. Subjects: Language acquisition.Language and languages. Grammar, Comparative and general Verb. Verbs. Linguistics. Language processing. 1 Kg.
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- Title
- Words and rules: the ingredients of language / Steven Pinker
- Author
- Pinker, Steven
- Publisher
- London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Publication year
- 1999
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0297816470
- ISBN 13
- 9780297816478
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
- Series
- Book 14 of 14: Science Masters
In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker answers these and many other questions. His new book shares the wit and style of his classic, The Language Instinct, but explores language in a completely different way. In this book, Pinker explains the profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively simple single phenomenon and examining it from every angle. That phenomenon the existence of regular and irregular verbs connects an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and humanities: the history of languages; the attempts to duplicate human language using computer simulations; the illuminating errors of children as they begin to speak; the peculiarities of the English language; the sources of the major themes in the history of Western philosophy; the latest techniques in identifying genes and imaging the living brain.
Pinker makes sense of all of this with the help of a single, powerful idea: that language comprises a mental dictionary of memorized words and a mental grammar of creative rules. It is a distinction that extends beyond language and offers insight into the very nature of the human mind. Words and Rules is a sparkling, eye-opening, and utterly original book by one of the world's leading cognitive scientists.
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