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How does language work, and how do we learn to speak? Why do languages change over time, and why do they have so many quirks and irregularities? In this original and totally entertaining book written in the same engaging style that illuminated his bestselling classics, "The Language Instinct" and "How the Mind Works, " Seven Pinker explores the profound mysteries of language.

By picking a deceptively simple phenomenon--regular and irregular verbs--Pinker connects an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and the humanities: the history of languages; the theories of Noam Chomosky and his critics; the attempts to create language using computer simulations of neural networks; what there is to learn from children's grammatical "mistakes"; the latest techniques in identifying genes and imaging the brain; and major ideas in the history of Western philosophy. He makes sense of all this with the help of a single, powerful idea: that language comprises a mental dictionary of memorized words and a mental grammer of creative rules. His theory extends beyond language and offers insight in the very nature of the human mind.

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Language comes so naturally to us that it is easy to forget what a strange and miraculous gift it is.

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  • Title Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
  • Author Steven Pinker
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date January 15, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780060958404 / 0060958405
  • Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.4 x 0.86 in (20.32 x 13.72 x 2.18 cm)
  • Reading level 1360
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Language and languages, Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99043013
  • Dewey Decimal Code 415
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