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STEVEN PINKERTHE LANGUAGE INSTINCTThe New Science of Language and MindPreface1 have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this Steven pinker the language instinct s book to try to satisfy that curiosity. Language is beginning to submit to that uniquely satisfying kind of understanding that we call science, but the news has been kept a secret.For the language lover. I hope to show that there is a world of elegance and richness in quotidian speech that far outs Steven pinker the language instinct hines the local curiosities of etymologies, unusual words, and fine points of usage.For the reader of popular science, 1 hope to explain what is behinSteven pinker the language instinct
d the recent discoveries (or. in many cases, nondiscovcrics) reported in the press: universal deep structures, brainy babies, grammar genes, artificiaSTEVEN PINKERTHE LANGUAGE INSTINCTThe New Science of Language and MindPreface1 have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this Steven pinker the language instinct wins separated at birth, color pictures of the thinking brain, and the search for the mother of all languages. Ĩ also hope to answer many natural questions about languages, like why there are so many of them, why they are so hard for adults to learn, and why no one seems to know the plural of Walkma Steven pinker the language instinct n.For students unaware of the science of language and mind, or worse, burdened with memorizing word frequency effects on lexical decision reaction timSteven pinker the language instinct
e or the fine points of the Empty Category Principle, I hope to convey the grand intellectual excitement that launched the modern study of language seSTEVEN PINKERTHE LANGUAGE INSTINCTThe New Science of Language and MindPreface1 have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this Steven pinker the language instinct mind me of the blind men palpating the elephant. If my personal synthesis seems to embrace both sides of debates like "formalism versus functionalism" or "syntax versus semantics versus pragmatics," perhaps it is because there was never an issue there to begin with.For the general nonfiction reader, Steven pinker the language instinct interested in language and human beings in the broadest sense, 1 hope to offer something different from the airy platitudes—Language Lite—that typifySteven pinker the language instinct
discussions of language (generally by people who have never studied it) in the humanities and sciences alike. For belter or worse, I can write in onlSTEVEN PINKERTHE LANGUAGE INSTINCTThe New Science of Language and MindPreface1 have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this Steven pinker the language instinct ect whose principles underlie wordplay, poetry, rhetoric, wit. and good writing. I have not hesitated to show off my favorite examples of language in action from pop culture, ordinary children and adults, the more flamboyant academic writers in my field, and some of the finest stylists in English.Th Steven pinker the language instinct is book. then, is intended lor everyone who uses language, and that means everyone!I owe thanks to many people. First, to T.eda Cosmides, Nancy LtcoffSteven pinker the language instinct
. Michael Gazzaniga. Laura Ann Pctitto, Harry Pinker. Robert Pinker. Roslyn Pinker. Susan Pinker. John looby, and especially Tlavenil Subbiah, for comSTEVEN PINKERTHE LANGUAGE INSTINCTThe New Science of Language and MindPreface1 have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this Steven pinker the language instinct l environment for the study of language, and Ĩ am grateful to the colleagues, students, and former students who shared their expertise. Noam Chomsky made penetrating criticisms and helpful suggestions, and Ned Block, Paul Bloom. Susan Carey. Ted Gibson. Morris Halle, and Michael Jordan helped me thi Steven pinker the language instinct nk through the issues in several chapters. Thanks go also to Hilary Bromberg. Jacob Feldman. John Houde, Samuel Jay Keyser, John J. Kim. Gary Marcus,Steven pinker the language instinct
Neal Perlmutter, David Pesetsky, David Poppel, Annie Senghas, Karin Stromswold. Michael Tarr, Marianne Teubcr. Michael Ullman, Kenneth Wexler, and KarSTEVEN PINKERTHE LANGUAGE INSTINCTThe New Science of Language and MindPreface1 have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this Steven pinker the language instinct rofessions, offered dedicated, expert help at many stages.Several chapters benefited from the scrutiny of real mavens, and I am grateful for their technical and stylistic comments: Derek Bickerton, David Caplan. Richard Dawkins, Nina Dronkers, Jane Grimshaw, Misia Landau, Beth Levin. Alan Prince, an Steven pinker the language instinct d Sarah G. Thomason. I also thank my colleagues in cyberspace who indulged my impatience by replying, sometimes in minutes, to my electronic queries:Steven pinker the language instinct
Mark Aronoff, Kathleen Baynes, Ursula Bellugi, Dorothy Bishop. Helena Cronin, Lila Glcitman. Myrna Gopnik, Jacques Guy, Henry Kucera, Sigrid Lipka, JaSTEVEN PINKERTHE LANGUAGE INSTINCTThe New Science of Language and MindPreface1 have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this Steven pinker the language instinct High School for her help with the Latin.1 am happy to acknowledge the special care lavished by John Brockman, my agent, Ravi Mirchandani. my editor al Penguin Books, and Maria Guarnaschelli, my editor at William Morrow; Maria's wise and detailed advice vastly improved the final manuscript. Katarina Steven pinker the language instinct Rice copy-edited my first two books, and 1 am delighted that she agreed to my request to work with me on this one. especially considering some of theSteven pinker the language instinct
things 1 say in Chapter 12.My own research on language has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (grant HD 18381) and the National ScieSTEVEN PINKERTHE LANGUAGE INSTINCTThe New Science of Language and MindPreface1 have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote thisSTEVEN PINKERTHE LANGUAGE INSTINCTThe New Science of Language and MindPreface1 have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote thisGọi ngay
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