Words and rules : the ingredients of language /
By: Pinker, Steven.
Publisher: London : Phoenix, 2000Description: 176 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0753810255; 9780753810255:.Subject(s): Psycholinguistics | Language acquisition
| Language and languagesDDC classification: 401.9 Summary: In 'Words and Rules', Steven Pinker explains the mysteries of language by examining a single construction from a dozen viewpoints, proposing that the essence of language is a mental dictionary of memorized words, and a mental grammar of creative rules.
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Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.
In 'Words and Rules', Steven Pinker explains the mysteries of language by examining a single construction from a dozen viewpoints, proposing that the essence of language is a mental dictionary of memorized words, and a mental grammar of creative rules.
Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.