The Atoms Of Language The Minds Hidden Rules Of Grammar
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Author | : Mark C. Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2001-10-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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A major scientific breakthrough into the common elements of all languages, which give us a deeper insight than ever before into how the mind works.
Author | : Mark C Baker |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2008-08-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0786724560 |
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Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality-and thus the mutual intelligibility-of human thought. We are now on the verge of answering this question. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers have found that the similarities among languages are more profound than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of the Periodic Table of the Elements: a single framework by which we can understand the fundamental structure of all human language. This is a landmark breakthrough, both within linguistics, which will thereby become a full-fledged science for the first time, and in our understanding of the human mind.
Author | : Mark C. Baker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Human languages are strikingly different from each other, and also strikingly the same. One of the most indecipherable codes used in World War II was Navajos speaking their native language. Yet the Navajos were able to translate messages to and from English quickly and accurately. This shows that, for all their differences, languages must have a strong common denominator. Linguistic research is discovering that, in spite of the differences among human languages, the underlying rules that form them are virtually identical.
Author | : Steven Pinker |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0465049710 |
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"If you are not already a Steven Pinker addict, this book will make you one." -- Jared Diamond In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explores profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively simple phenomenon -- regular and irregular verbs -- and examining it from every angle. With humor and verve, he covers an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and humanities, from the history of languages to how to simulate languages on computers to major ideas in the history of Western philosophy. Through it all, Pinker presents a single, powerful idea: that language comprises a mental dictionary of memorized words and a mental grammar of creative rules. The idea extends beyond language and offers insight into the very nature of the human mind. This is a sparkling, eye-opening, and utterly original book by one of the world's leading cognitive scientists.
Author | : Steven Pinker |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2010-12-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0062032526 |
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"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.
Author | : Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2009-01-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199544662 |
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Bringing together leading researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, cognitive neuroscience, comparative cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology, this book presents an account of what we know and would like to know about language, mind, and brain.
Author | : Ralph Fasold |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2006-03-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521847680 |
Download An Introduction to Language and Linguistics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This accessible textbook offers balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of modern linguistics.
Author | : Mark C. Baker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2003-03-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521001106 |
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Author | : Morten H. Christiansen |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1541674979 |
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Forget the language instinct—this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is perhaps humanity’s most astonishing capacity—and one that remains poorly understood. In The Language Game, cognitive scientists Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater show us where generations of scientists seeking the rules of language got it wrong. Language isn’t about hardwired grammars but about near-total freedom, something like a game of charades, with the only requirement being a desire to understand and be understood. From this new vantage point, Christiansen and Chater find compelling solutions to major mysteries like the origins of languages and how language learning is possible, and to long-running debates such as whether having two words for “blue” changes what we see. In the end, they show that the only real constraint on communication is our imagination.
Author | : Frederick J. Newmeyer |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2005-10-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191534404 |
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In this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer takes on the question of language variety. He considers why some language types are impossible and why some grammatical features are more common than others. The task of trying to explain typological variation among languages has been mainly undertaken by functionally-oriented linguists. Generative grammarians entering the field of typology in the 1980s put forward the idea that cross-linguistic differences could be explained by linguistic parameters within Universal Grammar, whose operation might vary from language to language. Unfortunately, this way of looking at variation turned out to be much less successful than had been hoped for. Professor Newmeyer's alternative to parameters combines leading ideas from functionalist and formalist approaches which in the past have been considered incompatible. He throws fresh light on language typology and variation, and provides new insights into the principles of Universal Grammar. The book is written in a clear, readable style and will be readily understood by anyone with a couple of years' study of linguistics. It will interest a wide range of scholars and students of language, including typologists, historical linguists, and theorists of every shade.