Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

Steven Pinker


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3.93 · 14 ratings · 397 pages · Published: 28 Oct 1999

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker
In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explains the mysteries of language by examining a single construction from a dozen viewpoints, proposing that the essence of language is a mental dictionary of memorized words, and a mental grammar of creative rules.

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