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| Author | : Mark C Baker |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2008-08-05 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0786724560 |
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.
| Author | : Steven Pinker |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2015-07-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0465049710 |
"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.
| Author | : Morten H. Christiansen |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2022-02-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1541674979 |
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.
| Author | : William Weltner |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780486661407 |
This comprehensive graduate-level text by a leading researcher in atomic and molecular spectroscopy explores the electron-spin-resonance theory of randomly oriented molecules. "I recommend it highly." ? American Scientist. 119 illustrations.
| Author | : Margalit Fox |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2008-08-05 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0743247132 |
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.
| Author | : Matt Tweed |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 2003-04-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0802714080 |
A short, illustrated introduction to the tiny building blocks of our universeincluding atoms, quarks, and the periodic table. Illustrations. 10,000print.
| Author | : Lawrence M. Krauss |
| Publisher | : Hachette+ORM |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2001-04-11 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0759523215 |
The story of matter and the history of the cosmos from the perspective of a single oxygen atom, told with the insight and wit of one of the most dynamic physicists and writers working today. Through this astonishing work, he manages to stoke wonder at the powers and unlikely events that conspired to create our solar system, our ecosystem, and us.
| Author | : K. David Harrison |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0195372069 |
It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. This text focuses on the question: what is lost when a language dies?
| Author | : Freya Hardy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 83 |
| Release | : 2019-10-08 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1782407383 |
A beautifully illustrated celebration of science from the clever people who bring you AQUILA magazine. Ideas are important. They change things. A single idea can start a war, save billions of lives, even rearrange whole planetary systems, or simply make a person giggle until they pee a little bit. They can be totally wrong but widely believed, or undoubtedly right and completely ignored. What's more, they're free, and anyone can have one-including you! The Book of Big Science Ideas looks at 15 brilliant science ideas and more than 50 ingenious thinkers who have helped shape our understanding of the world - whether they were right or wrong! Thinkers include, Wang Zhenyi, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, James Joule, Rosalind Franklin, Charles Darwin, Aristotle, Edith Clarke, Isaac Newton, Grace Hopper, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace and many, many more! From established ideas like atoms, electricity and the solar system, and ideas that are still evolving such as gravity, energy and classification, right up to recent discoveries like AI and genetics - this jam-packed book takes a fresh approach to science.
| Author | : L. Allen |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2012-05-04 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0486136175 |
Clear, comprehensive graduate-level account of basic principles involved in all quantum optical resonance phenomena, hailed in Contemporary Physics as "a valuable contribution to the literature of non-linear optics." 53 illustrations.
