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Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

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    In Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (1999) Pinker offered an analysis of the cognitive mechanisms that make language possible. Exhibiting a lively sense of humour and a talent for explaining difficult scientific concepts clearly, he argued that the phenomenon of language depended essentially on…

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