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Pinker, Steven Arthur was born on September 18, 1954 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Arrived in United States, 1976. Son of Harry and Roslyn (Wiesenfeld) Pinker.
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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? 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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In this influential study, Steven Pinker develops a new approach to the problem of language learning. Now reprinted with new commentary by the author, this classic work continues to be an indispensable resource in developmental psycholinguistics.
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New York Times"-bestselling author Pinker marries two of the subjects he knows best: language and human nature. The result is a fascinating look at how words explain human nature.
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Here, Pinker explains the mysteries of language by examining a single phenomenon, regular and irregular verbs, from a dozen vantage points. As the story unfolds, the reader is immersed in the evolution of the English language over the centuries, the theories of Noam Chomsky and his critics, the simulation of neural networks on computers, the illuminating errors of children as they begin to speak, the tragic loss of language from neurological disease, and more illustrations using humorous wordplay. Pinker aims to makie sense of all these phenomena, with the help of a single idea: that the essence of language is a mental dictionary of memorized words, and a mental grammar of creative rules.
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In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.
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Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive science. Learnability and Cognition, first published in 1989, brought together two big topics: how do children learn their mother tongue, and how does the mind represent basic categories of meaning such as space, time, causality, agency, and goals? The stage for this synthesis was set by the fact that when children learn a language, they come to make surprisingly subtle distinctions: pour water into the glass and fill the glass with water sound natural, but pour the glass with water and fill water into the glass sound odd. How can this happen, given that children are not reliably corrected for uttering odd sentences, and they don't just parrot back the correct ones they hear from their parents? Pinker resolves this paradox with a theory of how children acquire the meaning and uses of verbs, and explores that theory's implications for language, thought, and the relationship between them. As Pinker writes in a new preface, "The Secret Life of Verbs," the phenomena and ideas he explored in this book inspired his 2007 bestseller The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. These technical discussions, he notes, provide insight not just into language acquisition but into literary metaphor, scientific understanding, political discourse, and even the conceptions of sexuality that go into obscenity.
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In this classic, 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.
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Bestselling author Steven Pinker's early works on language acquisition have become classics in cognitive science. This BIT offers Pinker's look back at this work and two pivotal chapters from Learnability and Cognition.
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"El instinto del lenguaje" se ha convertido en un clásico donde Steven Pinker, el experto mundial en lenguaje y mente explica todo lo que a cualquiera de nosotros nos gustaría saber sobre el lenguaje: cómo funciona, cómo lo aprenden los niños, cómo cambia, cómo lo elabora el cerebro, y cómo evoluciona. Con claridad y buen h
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In this classic, 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.
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This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books?including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate?have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today?s most important popular science writers. In The Stuff of Thought, Pinker presents a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. Considering scientific questions with examples from everyday life, The Stuff of Thought is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of everything from The Selfish Gene and Blink to Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
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Pinker, Steven Arthur was born on September 18, 1954 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Arrived in United States, 1976. Son of Harry and Roslyn (Wiesenfeld) Pinker.
Bachelor in Experimental Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1979. Doctor of Science (honorary), McGill University, 1999.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Tel Aviv. University, 2003; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Newcastle, 2005. DUniv (honorary), University Surrey, 2003.
Postdoctoral fellow Center for Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Assistant professor psychology Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980-1981, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1981-1982, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1982—1985, associate professor brain & cognitive science, 1985—1989, professor, since 1989, co-director Center for Cognitive Science, 1985—1994, director McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, 1994—1999, Peter de Florez professor, 2000—2003. Johnstone Family professor psychology Harvard University, since 2003.
Consultant Cognitive and Instructional Sciences Group, Xerox Corporation Palo Alto Research Centers, 1981—1982. Visiting scholar, department of psychology Harvard University, 1987—1988. Visiting scholar, cognitive development unit Medical Research Council, London, 1988.
Visiting scholar, department of psychology and linguistics University California, Santa Barbara, 1995—1996. Honorary visiting professor, department of psychology University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2001—2004. Institute advisor Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle.
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("El instinto del lenguaje" se ha convertido en un clásico...)
(This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearles...)
(In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind ...)
( In this classic, the world's expert on language and min...)
( When children learn a language, they soon are able to m...)
(In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's lea...)
( Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and ...)
(Here, Pinker explains the mysteries of language by examin...)
( Bestselling author Steven Pinker's early works on langu...)
(New York Times"-bestselling author Pinker marries two of ...)
( In this influential study, Steven Pinker develops a ne...)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association (Distinguished Early Career award 1984, Boyd McCandless award 1986, William James Book prize 1995, 99, 2003, Eleanor Maccoby Book prize 2003), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Linguistics Society of America (Linguistics, Language and Public Services award 1997), American Psychological Society.
Married Rebecca Goldstein.