Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote severaltechnical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive science.Learnability and Cognit
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, andnot just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings ofverbs like "think,"
Research on creolization, language change, and language acquisition has beenconverging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop withinindividual speakers--and
Formal learning theory is one of several mathematical approaches to the study of intelligent adaptation to the environment. The analysis developed in this book is based on a number theoretical approac
In Race in the Making, Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race isnot derived from observations of physical difference, nor does it develop in the same way asknowledge of other social categories. Inst
foreword by Leda Cosmides and John ToobyIn Mindblindness, Simon Baron-Cohen presents a model of the evolution and development of "mindreading." He argues that we mindread all the time, effo
