Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)

By Steven Pinker

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262161117
• ISBN13: 9780262161114
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 411 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"