Add to ORKGWhen Harvard cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker listed fifty-eight commonly misused words in his latest book, The Sense of Style, he set off a renewed debate about language and its evolution. But is he trying to hang on to distinctions most of us no longer recognise, ask Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 12 February 2016
AbstractSteven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He studies visual ...
Unraveling the evolution of human language is no small enterprise. One could start digging somewhere...
Two extreme and contrasting positions held currently by various researchers in language evolution ar...
Once a word attracts negative connotations there seems to be no going back, linguist Kate Burridge t...
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When it was first published in 1997, Geoffrey Sampson's Educating Eve was described as the definitiv...
After nearly a quarter of a century collecting data among the Mennonites of southern Ontario, Kate B...
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Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct has captured the attention of those outside of the field of li...
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AbstractSteven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He studies visual ...
Unraveling the evolution of human language is no small enterprise. One could start digging somewhere...
Two extreme and contrasting positions held currently by various researchers in language evolution ar...
Once a word attracts negative connotations there seems to be no going back, linguist Kate Burridge t...
Content contains strong language. Once a word attracts negative connotations there seems to be no go...
Christine Kenneally’s The First Word is a review of work in the area of language evolution intended ...
Benedict Cumberbatch set off a small storm when he unconsciously pronounced penguin as "pengwing" in...
Dutch courage, French letters, it's all Greek to me... In the latest Inside Language podcast, Peter ...
We are in the midst of a very productive phase concerning evolutionary studies of human behaviour. N...
What was the first language, and where did it come from? Do all languages have properties in common?...
When it was first published in 1997, Geoffrey Sampson's Educating Eve was described as the definitiv...
After nearly a quarter of a century collecting data among the Mennonites of southern Ontario, Kate B...
Educação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::LinguísticaThe video presents a talk with the lingui...
Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct has captured the attention of those outside of the field of li...
Over the last forty-odd years, it has become fashionable to believe that human beings are born with ...
AbstractSteven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He studies visual ...
Unraveling the evolution of human language is no small enterprise. One could start digging somewhere...
Two extreme and contrasting positions held currently by various researchers in language evolution ar...