Language, Cognition, and Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Abstract
Steven Pinker’s books and essays on language, mind, and human nature that have reached a wide global audience. But his articles in the scholarly literature have also been influential and readable. This collection reprints a number of his classic articles which explore his favorite themes in greater depth and scientific detail. They include language development in children, neural network models of language, mental imagery, the recognition of shapes, the meaning and uses of verbs, the evolution of language and cognition, the nature of human concepts, the nature-nurture debate, the logic of innu ... More
Keywords: language, language development, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neural networks, mental imagery, visual cognition, verbs, evolution of language, concepts, nature-nurture debate, Steven Pinker, Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor, Richard Dawkins
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199328741 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199328741.001.0001 |
