The Atoms Of Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Atoms Of Language write by Mark C Baker. This book was released on 2008-08-05. The Atoms Of Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality-and thus the mutual intelligibility-of human thought. We are now on the verge of answering this question. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers have found that the similarities among languages are more profound than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of the Periodic Table of the Elements: a single framework by which we can understand the fundamental structure of all human language. This is a landmark breakthrough, both within linguistics, which will thereby become a full-fledged science for the first time, and in our understanding of the human mind.
Words and Rules
Words and Rules - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Words and Rules write by Steven Pinker. This book was released on 2015-07-14. Words and Rules available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "If you are not already a Steven Pinker addict, this book will make you one." -- Jared Diamond In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explores profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively simple phenomenon -- regular and irregular verbs -- and examining it from every angle. With humor and verve, he covers an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and humanities, from the history of languages to how to simulate languages on computers to major ideas in the history of Western philosophy. Through it all, Pinker presents a single, powerful idea: that language comprises a mental dictionary of memorized words and a mental grammar of creative rules. The idea extends beyond language and offers insight into the very nature of the human mind. This is a sparkling, eye-opening, and utterly original book by one of the world's leading cognitive scientists.
Talking Hands
Talking Hands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talking Hands write by Margalit Fox. This book was released on 2008-08-05. Talking Hands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Documents life in a remote Bedouin village in Israel whose residents communicate through a unique method of sign language used by both hearing and non-hearing citizens, in an account that offers insight into the relationship between language and the human mind. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
The Language Game
The Language Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Language Game write by Morten H. Christiansen. This book was released on 2022-02-22. The Language Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Forget the language instinct—this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is perhaps humanity’s most astonishing capacity—and one that remains poorly understood. In The Language Game, cognitive scientists Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater show us where generations of scientists seeking the rules of language got it wrong. Language isn’t about hardwired grammars but about near-total freedom, something like a game of charades, with the only requirement being a desire to understand and be understood. From this new vantage point, Christiansen and Chater find compelling solutions to major mysteries like the origins of languages and how language learning is possible, and to long-running debates such as whether having two words for “blue” changes what we see. In the end, they show that the only real constraint on communication is our imagination.
Essential Elements
Essential Elements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essential Elements write by Matt Tweed. This book was released on 2003-04-01. Essential Elements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A short, illustrated introduction to the tiny building blocks of our universeincluding atoms, quarks, and the periodic table. Illustrations. 10,000print.
