Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure

In tackling a learning paradox that has challenged scholars for more than a decade - how children acquire argument structure - Steven Pinker synthesizes a vast literature in the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics and outlines explicit theories of the mental representation, the learning, and the development of verb meaning and verb syntax. He describes a new theory that has some surprising implications for the relation between language and thought. Steven Pinker is Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.Pinker, Steven is the author of 'Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure', published 1989 under ISBN 9780262161114 and ISBN 0262161117.