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Synopsis
The codirector of the MIT Center for Cognitive Science explains how language works, how it differs from thought, why adults have difficulty learning foreign languages, and why computers cannot learn human language
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According to Steven PInker, science is an institution that fosters the instinct to make sense of the world while discouraging the instinct to deceive ourselves and one another.
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In this illuminating book, Steven Pinker attacks these fundamental questions of language with intense curiosity, energetic wit and clarity
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0688121411
- ISBN 13 9780688121419
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
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