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From the Preface...
I have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this book to try to satisfy that curiosity. Language is beginning to submit to that uniquely satisfying kind of understanding that we call science, but the news has been kept a secret.
For the language lover, I hope to show that there is a world of elegance and richness in quotidian speech that far outshines the local curiosities of etymologies, unusual words, and fine points of usage.
For the reader of popular science, I hope to explain what is behind the recent discoveries (or, in many cases, nondiscoveries) reported in the press: universal deep structures, brainy babies, grammar genes, artifically intelligent computers, neural networks, signing chimps, talking Neanderthals, idiot savants, feral children, paradoxical brain damage, identical twins separated at birth, color pictures of the thinking brain, and the search for the mother of all languages. I also hope to answer many natural questions about languages, like why there are so many of them, why they are so hard for adults to learn, and why no one seems to know the plural of Walkman.
Baskılar ve ISBN
- Jan 01, 2010
- Universidad del País Vasco · 512 sayfa
ISBN 9788498604238 - 2009
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ISBN 9788074380068 - July 1997
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ISBN 9788420677170 - April 2000
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Künye
- Yazar
- Steven Pinker
- İlk yayın
- 1994
- Yayınevleri
- ΚΑΤΟΠΤΡΟ, The Folio Society, Penguin Books, Limited, Penguin Books Ltd, Allen Lane
- Sayfa (ortalama)
- 513
- Baskı sayısı
- 35
- Kaynak
- Open Library