For those who may not have heard of Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist and linguist who currently teaches at Harvard, and for those who may not have seen this lecture based on his outstanding book The Stuff of Thought, here is the video from YouTube.
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It is well worth the watch.
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If you haven't see it already, I am sure you'll like
RSA Animate - Language as a Window into Human Nature where “Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings”.
Licia - Thank you for sharing. I had not seen the RSA Animate version of the lecture. It is outstanding.
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