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Language’s secrets revealed: Words, rules, minds, brains, and history collide.
Words And Rules
The Ingredients of Language
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416 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2000
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Summary
How does language work? How do children learn their mother tongue? Why do languages change over time, making Chaucer’s English almost incomprehensible?
Steven 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 illuminating errors of chil…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753810255 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753810255 |
| Author: | Prof Steven Pinker, Steven Pinker |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2000 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 28mm |
| Series: | SCIENCE MASTERS |
About The Author
Prof Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is Director of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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