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Cognition on CognitionISBN 0262631679 (0-262-63167-9)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Connections and SymbolsISBN 0262660644 (0-262-66064-4)
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Learnability and Cognition : The Acquisition of Argument Structureby Steven Pinker, Jacques A. MehlerISBN 0262660733 (0-262-66073-3)
Softcover, MIT Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Learnability and Cognition : The Acquisition of Argument Structure'Book summary:When children learn a language, they soon are able to make surprisingly subtle distinctions: "donate them a book" sounds odd, for example, even though "give them a book" is perfectly natural. How can this happen, given that children do not confine themselves to the sentence types they hear, and are usually not corrected when they speak ungrammatically? Steven Pinker resolves this paradox in a detailed theory of how children acquire argument structure.In tackling a learning paradox that has challenged scholars for more than a decade, Pinker synthesizes a vast literature in linguistics and psycholinguistics and outlines explicit theories of the mental representation, learning, and development of verb meaning and verb syntax. The new theory that he describes has some surprising implications for the relation between language and thought.Pinker's solution provides insight into such key questions as, When do children generalize and when do they stick with what they hear? What is the rationale behind linguistic constraints? How is the syntax of predicates and arguments related to their semantics? What is a possible word meaning? Do languages force their speakers to construe the world in certain ways? Why does children's language seem different from that of adults?Steven Pinker is Associate Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Learnability and Cognition is included in the series Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change, edited by Lila Gleitman, Susan Carey, Elissa Newport, and Elizabeth Spelke. A Bradford Book
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Neonate Cognition: Beyond the Blooming Buzzing Confusionby Steven Pinker, Jacques A. MehlerISBN 089859345X (0-89859-345-X)
Hardcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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What Infants Know: The New Cognitive Science of Early Developmentby Steven Pinker, Jacques A. MehlerISBN 1557863709 (1-55786-370-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Infants Know: The New Cognitive Science of Early Development'Book summary:The question of the extent to which, and how we are "prewired" , lies at the heart of contemporary debates in cognitive science. The authors' stimulating analysis of what it is to be "born knowing" sheds new light on these debates and points the way to anew scientific psychology of human development. [via]
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