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Learnability and cognition : the acquisition of argument structure / Steven Pinker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinker, Steven, 1954-
- Series:
- MIT Press series in learning, development, and conceptual change.
- Learning, development, and conceptual change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language acquisition.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Semantics.
- Learning ability.
- Child psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 411 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In tackling a learning paradox that has challenged scholars for more than a decade - how children acquire argument structure - Steven Pinker synthesizes a vast literature in the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics and outlines explicit theories of the mental representation, the learning, and the development of verb meaning and verb syntax. He describes a new theory that has some surprising implications for the relation between language and thought. Steven Pinker is Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.
- Notes:
- "A Bradford book."
- Includesbibliographical references (pages [375]-391) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-28161-9
- 0-585-02039-6
- OCLC:
- 42854162
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