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The Secrets of Words

The Secrets of Words

Chomsky, Noam
Moro, Andrea

Hardcover

PhilosophyLinguisticsSports General

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 0262046717
ISBN13: 9780262046718
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: May 3 2022
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.10 Depth: 6.10
Language: English
Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries.

In The Secrets of Words, influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between language and the brain. Moro draws Chomsky out on today's misplaced euphoria about artificial intelligence (Chomsky sees lots of hype and propaganda coming from Silicon Valley), the study of the brain (Chomsky points out that findings from brain studies in the 1950s never made it into that era's psychology), and language acquisition by children. Chomsky in turn invites Moro to describe his own experiments, which proved that there exist impossible languages for the brain, languages that show surprising properties and reveal unexpected secrets of the human mind.


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