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Pinker, Prof Steven

 
9780753810255: Words And Rules
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0753810255 ISBN 13 : 9780753810255
Editeur : W&N, 2001

Synopsis

One of the world's science superstars presents a brilliantly illuminating, entertaining and cutting-edge account of how language actually works.

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 children as they begin to speak; the sources of the major themes in the history of Western philosophy; the latest techniques in identifying genes and imaging the living brain. Pinker makes sense of all of this with the help of a single, powerful idea: that language comprises a mental dictionary of memorized words and a mental grammar of creative rules.

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À propos de l'auteur

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

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Éditeur
W&N
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0753810255
ISBN 13 
9780753810255
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
416
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Hachette Ireland, Hachette UK
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