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The Ingredients of Language
Steven Pinker
Harper Perennial, 2000
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Explain the theory that language comes from a mental dictionary of memorized words and a grammar of creative rules
• Understand how language works
• Understand how we learn to speak
• Explore why and how languages change over time
• Understand why there are so many quirks and irregularities in language
• Review research on the relationshp between language and brain injury, neurodegenerative diseases, impaired intelligence
• Explore what there is to learn from children’s grammatical ‘mistakes’
• Review the latest techniques in identifying genes
• Review imaging of the brain and language processing in the brain
Steven Pinker, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author or co-editor of many other books, including THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT.
11 CE credits; 368 pages
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