Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature by Ray S. Jackendoff

Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature

Ray S. Jackendoff

256 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics...

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