First edition, 1999. Hardback. xi, 348pp. Dustjacket. How does language work? How do children learn their mother tomgue? Why do languages change over time? Why do languages have so many quirks and irregularities? Are they all fundamentally alike? How are new words created? Where in the brain does language reside? Steven Pinker seeks to answer these and many other questions. Here is an eye-opening nd utterly original book by a leading cognitive scientist. Book in very good condition. Just the slightest bumping to corners. Internally clean and unmarked. Dust jacket very good. Unclipped. Very slight edge wear.

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Title

Words and Rules The Ingredients of Language

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0297816470

ISBN 13

9780297816478

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

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Dust Jacket Included

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This text answers many questions about the amazing human ability called language. It explains the mysteries of language by examining a single construction from a dozen viewpoints, including the history of language, its simulation by computer neural networks, the use of language as a source of wit and whimsey, the illuminating errors of children as they begin to speak, and the tragic loss of language from neurological disease.

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Steven Pinker is Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of the Technology.

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