New York Continnuum-3PL 2005 Revised ed. Hard cover Very Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 240 p.

New York Continuum 2005 Revised ed. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 240 p.

New York Continnuum-3PL 2005 Revised ed. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 240 p.

ISBN10: 0826473849, ISBN13: 9780826473844, [publisher: Continuum] Hardcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

New York Continuum 2005 Revised ed. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 240 p.

ISBN10: 0826473849, ISBN13: 9780826473844, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC] Hardcover A must have for all those following the debate about language, instinct vs learned debate.&Uumlber den AutorGeoffrey Sampson is Professor of Natural Language Computing at the School of Informatics, University of Sussex.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 0826473849, ISBN13: 9780826473844, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London] Hardcover Hardcover. When it was first published in 1997, Geoffrey Sampson's Educating Eve was described as the definitive response to Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct and Noam Chomsky's nativism. In this revised and expanded new edition, Sampson revisits his original arguments in the light of fresh evidence that has emerged since the original publication.Since Chomsky revolutionized the study of language in the 1960s, it has increasingly come to be accepted that language and other knowledge structures are hard-wired in our genes. According to this view, human beings are born with a rich structure of cognition already in place. But people do not realize how thin the evidence for that idea is.The 'Language Instinct' Debate examines the various arguments for instinctive knowledge, and finds that each one rests on false premisses or embodies logical fallacies. The structures of language are shown to be purely cultural creations.With a new chapter entitled 'How People Really Speak' which uses corpus data to analyse how language is used in spontaneous English conversation, responses to critics, extensive revisions throughout, and a new preface by Paul Postal of New York University, this new edition will be an essential purchase for students, academics, and general readers interested in the debate about the 'language instinct'. A must h ...