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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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Steven Pinker is professor and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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