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Words and Rules The Ingredients of Language

Paperback • 1999 • English

Words and Rules The Ingredients of Language

By Steven Pinker

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About the book

How does language work? How do children learn their mother tongue? Why do languages change over time, making Shakespearean English difficult for us to follow and Chaucer's English almost incomprehensible? Why do languages have so many quirks and irregularities? Are they all fundamentally alike? How are new words created? Where in the brain does language reside? In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker answers these and many other questions. His new book shares the wit and style of his classic, The Lang...Show more

Philosophy of language
Literacy
Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

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ISBN

9780297816478

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Words and Rules The Ingredients of Language

Format

Paperback

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