Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

From the author of the bestselling The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works comes an engaging, often hilarious, always insightful look at the philosophy of language.

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Pinker unpacks a remarkable variety of facts associated with the distinction between regular and irregular English words and their structure. If you like (English) words and want to know why they are put together in the way they are, this book is defintely for you.

Besides challenging conventional wisdom about how we think, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker has a talent for conveying his findings about the brain, language and perception with a clarity and cleverness that has brought him a following outside his field.